16 milestones. Pomp, gold, sanctified electricity, armed missions. And, underneath, the first bill.
The rule of the age: in every bloc, somebody presents the account of the wound — a worker, a serf, an inquiry, a synod — and in all eight cases the answer is repression, not reform. It is the age that makes the Stagnation inevitable, and not one of the eight perceives it while it is happening.
Macro reference: Solar do Crepúsculo 1863 · colonial missions 1862-1880 (48,000 Christian dead recorded) · the Loss of Vela Tarda 1871 · the Fleet of the Seven Lighthouses 1873 · Coronatus I unfaced 1875 · the Night of the Red Sails 1879.
CLERICAL ORDER — 2 milestones
1871 · The Burned Cathedrals
Armed workers of the forge-cities set fire to seven cathedrals in three weeks. The accusation: the Curia lies about who reveals what, and about what it costs. Brutal repression — some nine thousand dead and public executions over two months.
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