Motif · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

The Viceroys

Free transport to their systems and a Grease Monkey at every war, because their passion is science, not healing; bills wiped for those who sign themselves to post-biological form studies. 'Nothing is free in this galaxy.'

Segment appearances

• Chapter 8 — Larracos, City of Dreams
• Chapter 11 — Tipid; fifty thousand
• Chapter 18 — The minor quorum; code red
• Chapter 22 — Colonel Boomer
• Chapter 27 — Gavrilo Princip
• Chapter 28 — Toyotomi; Agatha is looking for Carl
• Chapter 30 — Comrades
• Chapter 43 — Odette hosts; 'It's coming'
• Chapter 44 — The Beautiful Place; Blood Hunter
• Chapter 46 — Operation Snake Pit: the line of succession
• Chapter 56 — Justice Light; the Nest
• Chapter 60 — Meatus; the King's Point erupts
• Chapter 68 — The Grease Monkey
• Chapter 82 — Ursensus

Progression

Free transport to their systems, a Grease Monkey at every war, bills wiped for those who sign themselves to post-biological form studies: their passion is science, not healing (ch. 68). Houston, their prime by discovery, believes the changelings are the key to the Beautiful Place (ch. 44, ch. 68). Tipid's brain repairs are theirs, and fail (ch. 11, ch. 82).