A Kiss for Damocles

The enemy is dead. Their guns still aim.

The Mutual Prosperity invaded Hesperides Colony centuries ago, dropped asteroids on the oceans, triggered a volcanic winter, killed millions. The invaders eventually died fighting. Their orbital artillery AI, Damocles, did not. It has spent three hundred years killing anything that looks like a threat: radio signals, powered vehicles, anything that might let humanity rebuild fast enough to strike back.

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