6/25/2023 0 Comments The baru cormorantIs posted as chief imperial accountant to another colony. Excels in her schoolwork, shows special aptitude in mathematics and aces the final exam. Promising island children like Baru are coaxed away from their families, inoculated against the epidemics, and brought up in boarding schools.īaru, realizing that the islanders cannot fight against the empire, decides to subvert the system from within. The imperial staff also brings epidemics which kill many locals. Homosexuality is outlawed one of Baru's two fathers is killed so she is left with the regulation two parents. The empire brings trade and modern medicine, but also strict ideas about "social hygiene" - eugenics and sexual mores. When she is a young child, the island is annexed/colonized by the Imperial Republic of Falcrest. Baru Cormorant is born on a backwater island paradise.
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