War During Peacetime (short story)

 was the seventh story in The Book of the Peace.

Summary
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Characters

 * Hedeth
 * Maddox
 * Aliyya
 * Little Brother Taran
 * Cousin Noriko

Worldbuilding

 * The Spiral Politic exists as a fractalling Fibonacci form, which the War in Heaven spread throughout.
 * Hedeth and Maddox have been tracking Faction Paradox for years.
 * The Houses have an asset recall system to prevent corpses of their soldiers from remaining in the Spiral Politic.
 * Noriko modifies traditional Faction rituals using the I Ching.

Continuity

 * Hedeth and Maddox remember Dust's history as "Foreman's World". (PROSE: Interference)
 * Foreman's World was discovered by human Generation Arks. (TV: The Ark, et al.)
 * Due to the War in Heaven fractalling throughout reality, all conflicts are reflections of the larger War. (PROSE: Weapons Grade Snake Oil)
 * Hedeth remembers hearing that soldiers at the Battle of Mons caught a glimpse of a higher level of the War. (PROSE: No Enemy But Despair, COMIC: The Weeping Angels of Mons)
 * Hedeth reflects that news of the Peace is spreading, (PROSE: The End of the Beginning, Going Once, Going Twice, et al.) signalling a Re-anchoring of the Thread to initiate the Peace. (PROSE: The Book of the War)
 * Maddox tracks the Faction's Artron energy. (TV: The Deadly Assassin, AUDIO: Day of the Master, et al.)
 * Faction Paradox are converging at Dust. (PROSE: The End of the Beginning)
 * Hedeth believes something significant happened on Foreman's World before the outbreak of the War as a result of War-time powers preparing for the conflict. (PROSE: Interference)
 * As regen-inf servants of the Great Houses, (PROSE: Dead Romance, The Book of the War) Hedeth and Maddox have nanotech in their bodies. (PROSE: Twilight of the Gods)
 * Maddox calls Dust a level 5 planet. (TV: City of Death, Smith and Jones, et al.)
 * Hedeth has a time bracelet. (TV: Genesis of the Daleks, PROSE: Warlords of Utopia)