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

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Faction Paradox website[]

The Unkindnesses discuss the future over dinner; the Sontarans decide to give extinction a push in the right direction; Justine gains an opportunity by losing her 'closest friend'; Godfather Morlock makes his last appearance in Parliament, and spots a trap just in time to walk into it; the founder of the House leaves a legacy; and the doomed end up dancing on the walls while the Faction prepares for war.

BBV Productions website[]

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[]

Cousin Justine meets with the Unkindness on behalf of House Paradox. The Unkindness tear apart her gift of Dodo meat and use it to show her a prophecy of the future where the Eleven-Day Empire is under attack. As the attack begins Cousin Eliza warns Godfather Morlock who then leads a briefing. Meanwhile Godfather Sabbath has already started to mobilise his forces.

Justine and Eliza board the attacking mothership and discover that the Empire is being invaded by the Sontarans. After taking them down with her shadow-weapon, Godfather Sabbath arrives with reinforcements and the Sontarans flee back through the rift. Having escaped, Justine and Eliza report back to Morlock. He believes that the assault on the Empire was a distraction for a more devious play. Consulting the Catalogue, Morlock realizes that a specimen jar has been replaced with a fusion bomb. With minutes left before detonation, Justine drops her shadow sword and, at Morlock's instruction, bonds the bomb to her shadow. The bomb detonates, destroying the shadows of both Morlock and herself.

Back on the mothership, General Kine and his advisor Lolita receive report of the fusion bomb's detonation. While Kine is irritated by Lolita's arrogance and the presence of her child, he continues with her plans. Meanwhile, Morlock and Justine have returned to the surface. The skies above them open, with representatives of the six Ruling Houses emerging from the rift. The Houses have offered to negotiate the recognition of House Paradox as an equal. Despite the suspicious timing of their offer, Morlock recommends that Parliament engage in negotiations.

Cousin Eliza warns of imminent danger to the Empire, based on her own planet's destruction by the Great Houses. Morlock sends Eliza to meet Lord Ruthven of House Tracolix while he observes their biodata. Meanwhile, Morlock takes Justine to the Ritual Hall to prepare for the trap that they have walked into. Parliament decides to reveal the Faction's special weaponry, including Grandfather Paradox's knife, which holds the last remaining physical trace of the now-erased Grandfather. Godmother Quelch has failed in every previous attempt to bond the weapon to a soldier. Despite Quelch's protests, Justine is ordered to bond with the weapon due to her lack of a shadow.

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Notes[]

  • A brief uncredited role in this story is that of the voices of the Unkindness. Lawrence Miles specified in his script that the Unkindnesses could be played by anyone in the cast.
  • The script to this story, dated to April 15 2000, was released on the Faction Paradox website in 2003. [1]
  • The story was recorded on 14 July 2001. [2]
  • On the Faction Paradox website, the letters "NEMY" were hidden in the skulls on the page for this story.[3]

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