Not quite Tank Girl but metaphorically rampaging in controlled fashion.
It makes sense that with the facts all known to the authorities (particularly her own crimes), her best hope *would* be some sort of venue for unconventional justice.
Aside from the prevailing condescension towards her, she's being treated professionally, and it would not surprise me to learn if this unconventional body might well recognize her pursuit of justice and grant some reprieve. Of course, their interest in silence and stifling scandal probably still make her death the simplest option in their eyes.
The Council is certainly the enemy of loose information and all progress. The settlers off the Three Ships had had their fill of rampant Change and certainly couldn't afford the economic output to support it, and the War three centuries later didn't improve anyone's opinion of it.
I imagine a mirror of the ancient world, where change was glacial, imposed on a limited technofuture where everything would remain static forever--or at least for as long as they could hold it back.
I guess you recognize in their religion the White Goddess and Her Consort, under different names. I don't speculate too hard if it organically developed due to the disaster of the Famine, or if it was socially engineered during the Caballardo, or both. The Temes kultus is plain Mithraism, and run by the militia, the Conciliar government's true power. But whether "Temes" is stronger than "Irodiada" I don't know either yet. Perhaps at some times yes, and at some times not.
Not quite Tank Girl but metaphorically rampaging in controlled fashion.
It makes sense that with the facts all known to the authorities (particularly her own crimes), her best hope *would* be some sort of venue for unconventional justice.
Aside from the prevailing condescension towards her, she's being treated professionally, and it would not surprise me to learn if this unconventional body might well recognize her pursuit of justice and grant some reprieve. Of course, their interest in silence and stifling scandal probably still make her death the simplest option in their eyes.
And of course --
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aradia
The Council is certainly the enemy of loose information and all progress. The settlers off the Three Ships had had their fill of rampant Change and certainly couldn't afford the economic output to support it, and the War three centuries later didn't improve anyone's opinion of it.
I imagine a mirror of the ancient world, where change was glacial, imposed on a limited technofuture where everything would remain static forever--or at least for as long as they could hold it back.
I guess you recognize in their religion the White Goddess and Her Consort, under different names. I don't speculate too hard if it organically developed due to the disaster of the Famine, or if it was socially engineered during the Caballardo, or both. The Temes kultus is plain Mithraism, and run by the militia, the Conciliar government's true power. But whether "Temes" is stronger than "Irodiada" I don't know either yet. Perhaps at some times yes, and at some times not.
https://therealsamizdat.com/2015/03/17/tammuz-and-ishtar-adonis-and-aphrodite-attis-and-cybele-isis-and-osiris/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodias#:~:text=In%20medieval%20Europe%2C%20Herodias%2C%20or,Diana%2C%20Holda%2C%20and%20Abundia.