EPILOGUE
FIVE YEARS LATER…
Gideon braced himself against the winds buffeting the top of Griffin tower and stared out at the vast water cleansers dotting the horizon. Each of the colossal machines was over a kilometre wide and used a compact SDBB at its core to separate toxins from the water. Using this method, billions of tons of seawater could be cleaned every day. A similar quantum-displacement technique had also been used in the mission to drain the nation’s former capital and coastal regions, with the removed water being redistributed by quantum vault to countries where it was urgently needed. – A gift from New Britain to the world. Where the newly reclaimed land still needed protection from the sea, entire sections of the walls which had once divided the nation had been repurposed,
