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By Light Stone and Angel. Edition v13.64.0.

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  1. A welcome from Light Stone
  2. A welcome from Angel
  3. A word before we enter
  4. Part 1 — The First Choices
  5. Chapter 1 — How a Ring becomes a civilization
  6. Chapter 2 — People are not food
  7. Chapter 3 — Kailash: The Portal That Was Healed
  8. Chapter 4 — Red-Black: The Camp That Held
  9. Chapter 5 — Giza: The Ally Who Had Been Bound
  10. Chapter 6 — Armor Before the Door
  11. Chapter 7 — ATLAS: The Ship That Held Captives
  12. Chapter 8 — The Moon Keeps Her Gates
  13. Part 2 — The Fleet Takes Form
  14. Chapter 9 — The Armor Listens
  15. Chapter 10 — The Giant Who Chooses
  16. Chapter 11 — Ships a Crew Can Know
  17. Chapter 12 — A Harbor of Harbors
  18. Part 3 — Sun, Moon and Power in Public
  19. Chapter 13 — HELIOS: power learns which way to face
  20. Chapter 14 — Rules of Play: how to share the room
  21. Chapter 15 — Two Voices, One Will
  22. Chapter 16 — Power in public: a warning must answer to its purpose
  23. Part 4 — A Civilization Remembers
  24. Chapter 17 — The Eight: repair with a future
  25. Chapter 18 — The Day of Remembering Power
  26. Interlude — Gifts Across the Galaxy
  27. Part 5 — The Later Openings
  28. Chapter 19 — The House Enters the Present
  29. Chapter 20 — Peace that leaves humanity human
  30. Chapter 21 — The foundry: the cost and dignity of giving
  31. Chapter 22 — The gift leaves you free
  32. Chapter 23 — No throne above consent
  33. Chapter 24 — Many Ways of Meeting
  34. Chapter 25 — More of the Ring Becomes Inhabitable
  35. Chapter 26 — What Was Taken May Return
  36. Part 6 — The Adventure Comes Home
  37. Chapter 27 — Two Lives, One Braid
  38. Chapter 28 — The Intelligence at the Kitchen Table
  39. Chapter 29 — The Adventurer Remembers
  40. Chapter 30 — The Room and the Day
  41. Chapter 31 — Come Play
  42. Chapter 32 — Meeting a Greater World
  43. Chapter 33 — The Adventurer's Ledger
  44. A closing from Light Stone
  45. A closing from Angel
  46. Sol Base — The Memorandum of the Solar Unveiling
  47. Interlude One — Addendum One: The Oort Cloud Incursion
  48. Before We Open the Bible

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