Rajpat Singh kept a record. He was a chronicler in the service of the British Empire, and his job was to document everything: the construction of the Sun Pillars, the consumption of fuel, the mortality rates of colonial laborers.
The Sun Pillars rose from the plains of India, Africa, and Australia. Twelve thousand of them, scattered across the empire like the stakes of a great tent. Their plasma columns threw a blue-white light across the northern sky, turning day into an impossible twilight. The empire called it salvation. Rajpat called it what it was: theft. His grandfather had died during the Braking Era, in the heat...
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