Blood and Rust: Part 3

Steel Dunes, an international large-scale prison on the south coast, serves as a joint project for the colony and the Dar’y and Isaris peoples to stop the burgeoning crime. However, Vas Kandiris, commander of the powerful government guards, is increasingly abusing it to arrest political opponents of the governor there after the terrible failure of the newly launched space program. Kat-Ya Kon Wardi, daughter of the late High Priest of the Aristo cult of the Dar’y, is also forced to act against increasingly radical forces within the clans. Sard Mamarter and Dars Poole, a former friend of Brit Darburg and Len Kakaia, are among the prominent inmates who are gradually taking control of the “steel dunes”.

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Steel Dunes, an international large-scale prison on the south coast, serves as a joint project for the colony and the Dar'y and Isaris peoples to stop the burgeoning crime. However, Vas Kandiris, commander of the powerful government guards, is increasingly abusing it to arrest political opponents of the governor there after the terrible failure of the newly launched space program. Kat-Ya Kon Wardi, daughter of the late High Priest of the Aristo cult of the Dar'y, is also forced to act against increasingly radical forces within the clans. Sard Mamarter and Dars Poole, a former friend of Brit Darburg and Len Kakaia, are among the prominent inmates who are gradually taking control of the "steel dunes".

As resistance to governor Adam grows and even the most brutal measures of the units of Vas Kandiris couldn’t cause the people to calm down, the government settles in the hoped-for safe fortress. There, criminals, radical believers and political extremists gather with the units of the fled government. Brit Darburg received the post of transitional governor. Together with Len Kakaia, Brigadier General of the Political Police, she forms the resistance and unites troops of the army and the Dar'y.

“Blood and Rust” symbolizes creeping decay and coercion that binds people to other people as well as ideals and ideologies and does not protect them against their own and other manipulations - a political thriller in which glitter and delusion, hopes, fears, love and hate belong together and at the end a humanitarian catastrophe is waiting.