Place · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

The southern front

A kilometre-wide corridor, 250 metres of no-man's land under a black ceiling of cloud, a labyrinth of trenches, a planning bunker, craters and a hidden lake of acid; Boomer's war.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 14 — The flag room and the Ramp-Up
• Chapter 15 — The Rolling Battle Formation Ball
• Chapter 20 — Christmas Morning; the Ramp-Up
• Chapter 21 — The southern trenches; rot stickers
• Chapter 22 — Colonel Boomer
• Chapter 23 — Killing in the Name
• Chapter 24 — No Man's Land
• Chapter 29 — The Bamboozle
• Chapter 32 — King Rust arrives
• Chapter 39 — Alliances break; Operation Snake Pit
• Chapter 56 — Justice Light; the Nest
• Chapter 75 — Stayfast Ink

Arc

A kilometre-wide corridor, 250 metres of no-man's land that roils with fog and counter-fog, a labyrinth of trenches built in a day from scrolls, twelve feet deep with periscopes and red mud (ch. 21); a planning bunker and a map (ch. 22); Dazzlers playing Rage Against the Machine over two thousand going over the top (ch. 23); craters, flaming rolling rocks, a trench dug into the enemy's (ch. 24); a hidden lake of acid in the middle trench (ch. 25). Tran's 102nd holds it afterward (ch. 29, ch. 56).