This scene will be toward the end of Act I for the Javier and Mētis story. It is a cross between a world-building essay and working on writing dialogue. Javier is an Earth tween who has been convinced by Mētis to live on a village ship. Javier was forced to leave his grandfather’s farmstead on…
Aboard a ship orbiting a moon that is itself orbiting a planet, a man basks in his quiet accomplishments. Before he joined, Sciencia Liberum was a tiny, plodding, risk-averse organization whose operatives dropped subtle hints to the natives below regarding how they could improve their lives through science and technology. It advanced the cause, but…
