This chapter opens with a soliloquy about the ruins of the city of Sentita, which is now being destroyed by the Roman army. The Roman soldiers have built a "stratospheric thermal shunting" system, a system of floating pillars that pull heat from the lower atmosphere into the upper. This system has been used by humans for thousands of years, and it is believed to have been responsible for the rise of the human race.
This chapter opens with a soliloquy about the ruins of the city of Sentita, which is now being destroyed by the Roman army. The Roman soldiers have built a "stratospheric thermal shunting" system, a system of floating pillars that pull heat from the lower atmosphere into the upper. This system has been used by humans for thousands of years, and it is believed to have been responsible for the rise of the human race.