A Prelude to a Prelude (short story)

 was the ninth promotional short story released in The Book of the Peace Dossier.

Summary
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Characters

 * Needleborn

Worldbuilding

 * The War in Heaven is discussed on message boards.

Continuity

 * The post-war edition of the Primer for the Spiral Politic has information of the Peace. (AUDIO: The Eleven Day Empire, et al.)
 * An attempt at Peace via direct negotiation with an Enemy representative was made on Dronid shortly before the Cataclysm. (PROSE: Alien Bodies, The Book of the War)
 * The Utterlost Accords occurred early in the War in Heaven and cemented the concept of "Hot Peace". (PROSE: Pre-narrative Briefing B)
 * The Venue Accords are mentioned. (PROSE: The Book of the War)
 * The Primer for the Spiral Politic is passed through the Emperor's censors. (PROSE: Father Time)
 * As an expansion of the Nine Homeworlds project, (PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon, et al.) the Houses created specially-primed "lesser Homeworlds" in bottle universes (PROSE: Dead Romance) and oxbow timelines (PROSE: Weapons Grade Snake Oil) which fought microscopic models of the War in Heaven. One notable example involved a race of mechanical invaders who negotiated to fight the lesser Homeworlds in exchange for time technology; (PROSE: Dead Romance) the only Homeworld to survive time war with them did so by returning to organic models of childbirth and enacting the ritual of the "entrenched last stand" to be saved by the future. (TV: The Day of the Doctor)
 * The "lesser Homeworlds" project was discontinued when the number of lost Homeworlds became too distasteful to bear. (PROSE: The Brakespeare Voyage)