Fathom 4's tithe is logged. Next stop: Scargaris Prime, a salt-flat hive world that hasn't paid taxes in ten thousand years. Lady Abathia Rubania greets them wearing a backpack of her own blood. Her alabaster spire glistens wetly in the sun. Reeb rolls Medicae on the wall — and finds out what the Marble Compact has really been feeding into their architecture. Somewhere beneath it all, a Dark Age Mechanicum outpost is still waiting.

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