The Eleven Day Empire (audio story)

The Eleven Day Empire was the first Faction Paradox audio story, and — along with The Shadow Play — half of the series' first chapter.

Publisher's summary
PRIMER FOR THE SPIRAL POLITIC (POST-WAR EDITION)

1: FACTION PARADOX

Era: Non-specific.

Technology: Post-linear (subtle), time-active.

Even before the outbreak of the "War in Heaven", Faction Paradox was regarded as the most unpredictable (and opportunistic) of the time-active powers. Aware of the precarious nature of history -- but under no obligation to protect it -- while the other Great Houses were still attempting to uphold a "universal order", the Faction was following its own, far more ambiguous, protocols. Ruthless, secretive and at times difficult to understand, it's hardly surprising that the Faction should have eventually found itself under siege from its rival powers...

Plot
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Cast

 * Cousin Justine - Suzanne Proctor
 * Godfather Morlock - Ellis Pike
 * Lolita - Caroline Burns-Cook
 * Cousin Eliza / Godmother Quelch - Emma Kilbey
 * Lord Ruthven / General Kine - Nigel Fairs
 * The Voice - Linda Bartram

Continuity

 * It is mentioned that Justine was sent on a mission which she failed. (PROSE: Alien Bodies)
 * Justine remembers the suicide of Father Sanjira. (PROSE: Alien Bodies)
 * The Eleven-Day Empire previously appeared in PROSE: Unnatural History and PROSE: Interference.
 * It is later revealed that the War King hired Lolita to destroy the Eleven-Day Empire. (AUDIO: Words from Nine Divinities)
 * Lord Ruthven was previously mentioned in PROSE: Alien Bodies.
 * Eliza tells Justine how her world was destroyed by one of the Houses. (PROSE: Dead Romance)