![]() ![]() Generally it is the cleaning up afterwards that takes longer. Usually they are finished quickly by ECS warships or Polity ground forces, or both. These conflicts are called Line wars – being very specifically defined as such by the resources required for them and how they impinge on Polity territory. ![]() ![]() Upon this border there have been and will continue to be numerous conflicts, for beyond it human and even AI occupation extends even further as a result of the first diasporas of the solar system and the continuous emigration of those humans and AIs searching for something new or fleeing something old. The Line, which is effectively the border zone of the Polity, has in many areas stabilized where the Polity has ceased to expand (a prime example being the point between the Polity itself and the Prador Third Kingdom, called by its residents the ‘Graveyard’) but is still shifting outwards elsewhere (towards the galactic centre mostly). Cheers for the readings, even if not of this one! Contents ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() until many years later, when it was added to His Last Bow. edition, and some sources state that the publishers believed the story was too scandalous for the American public.As a result, this story was not republished in the U.S. This may have also been the cause for the rapid removal of the story from the U.S. In Britain the story was apparently removed at Doyle's request as it included adultery and so was unsuitable for younger readers. edition did include the story, but it was very quickly replaced with a revised edition that omitted it.The reasoning behind the suppression is unclear. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1894, by Arthur Conan Doyle.The twelve stories (eleven in American editions) of the Memoirs are: "Silver Blaze" "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box" (this story is in His Last Bow in American editions of the canon) "The Adventure of the Yellow Face" "The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk" "The Adventure of the Gloria Scott" "The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual" "The Adventure of the Reigate Squire" "The Adventure of the Crooked Man" "The Adventure of the Resident Patient" "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter" "The Adventure of the Naval Treaty" "The Final Problem" The first London edition of the Memoirs in 1894 did not include "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box", although all twelve stories had appeared in the Strand Magazine. ![]() ![]() ![]() She also jumps right into the sex in the park idea, even though she has been inexperienced up until this time.Įventually, the forces of Caeris and Eren come to a head, and El must waken the land and save the day. 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