Nebulars
A colonial people whose mass suicide is one of the disasters buried in the epilogue's news cycle.
Story so far
The Nebular colonies enter the story as a headline York scrolls past. Among the news competing for attention after Faction Wars - a new Prime Minister, a The Dream cruiser crashed onto Earth over Australia - is a mass suicide in one of the Nebular colonies.
None of it holds the feed for long. The story that dominates is a mantis system going boom, and the general fear that stars do not go nova without warning. That an entire colony killing itself can be a minor item is the clearest measure of how far the galaxy has come apart by the end of the book.
Role
A colonial people whose mass death barely registers against the epilogue's larger catastrophes.
Relationships
Earlier in this series
Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:
- The Butcher's MasqueradeBook 5
- The Eye of the Bedlam BrideBook 6
Sources — 6 recorded facts, by chapter
- A cult-like faction that sponsors gods and unsettles even hardened lawyers.
- Faction Carl dismisses as crazy weirdos while counting them among the parties circling the residuals.
- Species Carl uses as a benchmark of cybernetic weirdness — and finds far less robotic and less scary than Reaver cyborgs.
- The faction King Rust blames for originating the crackpot theory that the AI's insanity is contagious.
- Worshippers of the Eulogist, ideologically aligned with the rare strain of residuals opposing the Apothecary.
- A colonial people whose mass suicide is one of the disasters buried in the epilogue's news cycle.