Marce's ship is the last to leave End before its Flow entrance shoal closes the system's exit shoal will be the last to close. Thousands of imperial troops are sent to End after terrorist bombings on Hub, allegedly caused by End conspirators but actually by the house. The house covertly supports rebels on End to overthrow its duke, hoping to take power and become the new royal family when the Flow network reshapes. It believes that the Flow will change but not collapse, with End becoming the new center of the network. House Nohamapetan wants to marry an heir to Cardenia to gain power. The Emperox has died, however, and his unprepared daughter Cardenia is crowned as Grayland II. The count sends his son Marce, also a physicist, to Hub to warn his old friend Emperox Attavio VI. Without the Flow, society on every system will likely collapse. Humans can only live on a planetary surface on End they need space stations or underground habitats in other systems. All systems will be isolated none are self-sufficient.
The state religion, with the Emperox as titular head, celebrates the Interdependency as a divinely sanctioned society.Ĭount Claremont, a physicist on End, calculates after decades of study that the Flow will soon collapse. The trading houses are incredibly wealthy from government-sanctioned monopolies and by collecting tolls at "shoals", entrances and exits to Flow pathways. As a natural phenomenon, the Flow is poorly understood Earth disconnected from the network thousands of years ago, and civilization on another system collapsed more recently when its pathway suddenly closed.įamily-owned megacorporations control all interstellar trade in the Interdependency's mercantile economy one, House Wu, is the royal family. There is no faster-than-light communication faster than the Flow, and interstellar trips are not instantaneous-ships carrying mail or passengers from Hub, the capital of the empire and the system with the most Flow connections, arrive at End, the most distant, nine months later-but the network permits life-sustaining intersystem trade.
Each stream is one way and has an entry point and an exit point. The Interdependency is a thousand-year-old human empire of 48 star systems connected by the Flow, a network of "streams" allowing faster-than-light travel. The second book, The Consuming Fire, was released Octo and the final book, The Last Emperox, was released on April 14, 2020. It is the first of a series that was originally intended to be two books but is now a trilogy. The book was published by Tor Books on March 21, 2017. The Collapsing Empire is a space opera novel by American writer John Scalzi.
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