After the "Steam Clean" incident was resolved and the biological hazards were scrubbed from the Factory Plaza, the heavy iron gates of City Titan were once more opened.
However, they were not opened for an invading army, nor for a triumphant parade. They were opened for the Applicant Pool.
Refugees from the destabilized regions of Mercia.. displaced by Ragnar's "Hostile Audit" of Nottingham and the subsequent collapse of the local feudal economy.. began to arrive in Northumbria.
They did not come with swords or shields.
They came with empty bellies and rumors of a city where men were paid in silver every Friday, regardless of their birth.
To the medieval peasant, City Titan was a confusing nightmare of grey stone and smoke. To the desperate, it was a Job Fair.
While Ragnar was off conducting field operations in the Midlands, Gyda was left behind to act as the Chief Operating Officer (COO).
