A New Device

After Doomsday, 6.

Ashchiza the Great and the Erzhuat Horde unified and modernized Kandemir, adapting nomadism to space mercantilism and combat. Ashchiza's son ruled an empire which grew under his grandson, Ferzhakan, who hopes for hegemony over a spiral arm but is opposed by Vorlak so that the war grinds on for years with Monwaing unofficially helping Vorlak but other spacefarers in the cluster too weak to intervene. 

The Earthman, Goldspring, invents a device which not only detects paragrav waves but also generates microwaves that enable it to use interferometric principles and thus to detect ships twice as far and three times as accurately as before. Thus, fifty Earthmen in a Vorlakka destroyer should be able to dodge Kandemirian defence craft long enough to enable them to hit the base on Mayast III, then to escape back into space. However, a missile hits the destroyer and Earthmen are taken prisoner. Transition from 6 to 7.

This evening, we have witnessed well choreographed fight scenes on stage, culminating at Reichenbach with a film of the Falls projected onto the back of the stage behind the actors. Moriarty spoke with an Irish accent and, for the first time, we heard the concluding dialogue between him and Holmes, the latter defending the British Empire.