In the Year of the Cat was the fourth of The Faction Paradox Protocols, and the second of the series's second chapter.
Publisher's summary[]
PRIMER FOR THE SPIRAL POLITIC (POST-WAR EDITION)
4: THE MUNIFICENT ARMY OF PEKING
Era: human historical (later period).
Technology: Military (self-contained), non-time-active.
By the end of the fifth millennium AD, the homunculi created by the human species — clones, cross-breeds, fighting-machines and artificial intelligences of all descriptions — outnumbered humanity by more than thirteen to one: but even so, there were no creations like those of Peking. Heading a thousand-strong army of individually-crafted automata, the twelve commanders were self-aware embodiments of the oriental zodiac, forged to a strict astrological design and said to incorporate history itself in their operating program. After the fall of Peking, however, most were never accounted for...
Plot[]
to be added
Cast[]
- Cousin Justine - Suzanne Proctor
- Lord Sandwich - Michael Chance
- The Sieur d'Eon - Jo Castleton
- Cousin Eliza - Emma Kilbey
- Mistress Culver - Jackie Skarvellis
- King George III - Eric MacLennan
- Queen Charlotte - Caroline Burns-Cook
- The Earl of Bute - Mark Grieg
- The Lady / Annabel - Linda Bartram
References[]
- Mistress Culver is revealed to be Compassion.
Notes[]
to be added
Continuity[]
- One of the Peking Homunculi — the Pig — disappeared. (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang)
- Justine "used to live somewhere very much like" St James's Square. (PROSE: Of the City of the Saved...)
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