The Mission part2

The sun was on the rise, the taste of Java Boenerges on the tongue, I was awake and walking the long trek to the Land of Sealth, and as my higher brain functions began to return, I remembered why I was so willing to serve in that kingdom again. I had taken the king’s coin before and had served honorably under the uncaring Ibau Kochranus. Those years long ago had been fruitful for my purse and had allowed me to become an initiate in the understanding of the binary difference engine. In my prosperity I had even begun construction on my space dirigible

SS Bayern.

When I was cast out in the time of Chief Sealth’s Ally’s loss of Twin Towers to the barbarian heathen, I vowed never to serve the king again unless on my own terms.
Some day Ibau Kochranus will receive judgment…I began to think before remembering the teachings of Isa and immediately began to pray as I walked through the dusty streets. I must be patient and swallow my pride and hope to distinguish myself under Posav Maantenon, he was known to be generous to those who served well and ruthless to the slackers. And the Lord God knew my desperation—the memories of my frightened family as the Pirates of Penury carried them away as hostages came unbidden to my mind. I had sold everything I had to get them back, but the pirates had only ‘loaned’ me back my own space dirigible that I might return to Terra and find treasure to redeem my family.
With my craft parked in orbit I fell to earth in one of the escape pods to return to the Temple of Wireless to learn more of the secrets of the aether and the communication of data. With this knowledge I could pay back the pirates and learn how to build the subspace sensors that I needed to avoid the pirates in the future. Alas, with no money for entrance to the Temple of Wireless, I served as a tinker and studied under the Sister’s Temple of Takoemeq. Thus began my new line of research that will some day (hopefully) bring to me the understanding of the Secrets of Maxwell and Gauss and perhaps even Heisenberg. When I had had enough to at least buy a servant’s scholarship* to the Temple of Wireless, I had begun the trek only to find my path directed to the Land of Sealth.