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The Research fallout

作者: Jules Golden
last update publish date: 2026-07-06 23:08:17

Chapter 173

The requests started arriving in the third week.

Not all at once. Gradually, the way consequences arrived when something large had been set in motion, first a trickle, then a steady flow, then something that required its own system of management.

Three territories in the eastern region had formally cited my mother's research in challenges to their own Council-imposed resource allocations. Two had produced results, one positive, one volatile enough that Kane had dispatched a coalitio
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