Sixteen Ways to Defend A Walled City by K.J. Parker EPUB & PDF – Details About
- Author: K.J. Parker
- Genre: Military Fantasy, Humorous Fantasy
- Publish Date: 9 April 2019
- Size: 5 MB
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I was in Classis on business. I needed sixty miles of second-
grade four-inch hemp rope— I build pontoon bridges— and all
the military rope in the empire goes through Classis. What
you’re supposed to do is put in a requisition to Divisional
Supply, who send it on to Central Supply, who send it on to the
Treasurer General, who approves it and sends it back to
Divisional Supply, who send it on to Central Supply, who
forward it to Classis, where the quartermaster says, sorry, we
have no rope. Or you can hire a clever forger in Herennis to
cut you an exact copy of the treasury seal, which you use to
stamp your requisition, which you then take personally to the
office of the deputy quartermaster in Classis, where there’s a
senior clerk who’d have done time in the slate quarries if you
hadn’t pulled certain documents out of the file a few years
back. Of course, you burned the documents as soon as you
took them, but he doesn’t know that. And that’s how you get
sixty miles of rope in this man’s army.
I took the overland route from Traiecta to Cirte, across one
of my bridges (a rush job I did fifteen years ago, only meant to
last a month, still there and still the only way across the Lusen
unless you go twenty-six miles out of your way to Pons
Jovianis) then down through the pass onto the coastal plain.
Fabulous view as you come through the pass, that huge flat
green patchwork with the blue of the Bay beyond,
and Classis
as a geometrically perfect star, three arms on land, three
jabbing out into the sea. Analyse the design and it becomes
clear that it’s purely practical and utilitarian, straight out of the
field operations manual. Furthermore, as soon as you drop
down onto the plain you can’t see the shape, unless you
happen to be God. The three seaward arms are tapered jetties,
while their landward counterparts are defensive bastions,
intended to cover the three main gates with enfilading fire on
two sides.
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