It's why the government spends so much time and energy enforcing the high calendar, especially on the borders where other realms try to supplant their own calendars. If communications and mothdrive break down, there go all the trade routes.
[citizens absorb these lessons early in childhood, but now that she writes it out, something prods at her still-jumbled recent memories. something about mothdrive -- what could be strange about the interstellar warmoths and trademoths on which the entire economy depends? why does the thought give her an intense feeling that something is wrong, something she can't fix because they're all trapped here? she frowns and hits send anyway, filing it for later. the existence of non-calendrical ways to break physics is much more interesting right now.]
Like an individual talent in art, or mathematics, but you can influence physical properties, and the ability isn't affected by the environment? Can parents gene-select for magical power? [prebirth genetic tinkering, for anything from looks to personality profiles, has been affordable and commonplace in the hexarchate for as long as she can remember.]
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[citizens absorb these lessons early in childhood, but now that she writes it out, something prods at her still-jumbled recent memories. something about mothdrive -- what could be strange about the interstellar warmoths and trademoths on which the entire economy depends? why does the thought give her an intense feeling that something is wrong, something she can't fix because they're all trapped here? she frowns and hits send anyway, filing it for later. the existence of non-calendrical ways to break physics is much more interesting right now.]
Like an individual talent in art, or mathematics, but you can influence physical properties, and the ability isn't affected by the environment? Can parents gene-select for magical power? [prebirth genetic tinkering, for anything from looks to personality profiles, has been affordable and commonplace in the hexarchate for as long as she can remember.]