Article 17: Intro
She was pretty, popular, snobby, and a planetary governor’s daughter. He was the son of shopkeepers, a social misfit, and a decorated hero. She thought she was there to dance. He had other ideas.
“This month at our book club we will be studying Martin Chillia’s famous book ‘Leader Tomirosh’. This book was written three years after Hero Tomirosh’s death and is a highly fictionalised account of his early career, at least as concerns his personal life and personality, of which very little is known. We are reading this book for, among other reasons, gaining an understanding of the early dictatorship years.
Ld. Tomirosh was not the only hero of those years but he was among the most famous and certainly one of the most colourful. When you read this account, you need to keep in mind that Ld. Tomirosh’s contemporaries knew, at the beginning of his career, almost nothing of who he actually was…"
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Article 17
Intro // Podcast Version
She was pretty, popular, snobby, and a planetary governor’s daughter. He was the son of shopkeepers, a social misfit, and a decorated hero. She thought she was there to dance. He had other ideas.
A Dance // Podcast Version
As a governor’s daughter, Illoia usually avoided such events, but when the captain made the announcement that there was to be an Article 17 dance, she, too, was forced to attend. If only the scum hadn’t been there too.
The Unbridgeable Chasm // Podcast Version
Eukles and Meriones, brave military leaders, quail at cross the gulf between themselves and asking a lass to dance.
There He Is // Podcast Version
The young hero comes in, and Aleshia and Illoyia gossip about him.