However, most of the crew on Polaris is skeptical of her uncanny sense of direction, so even though Rose might be able to intuit and map the safest of routes and calculate precise coordinates without the help of instruments, she doesn’t have any friends other than the admiral’s daughter. Her natural ability to perceive cardinal points from deep within herself makes Rose an asset as a navigator on the North Star, working for Admiral Comita of Polaris Station. The story is told by Compass Rose, so named because she was born facing due north. At the moment, the Archipelago Fleet still holds them, but increasing pirate activity could change that, with disastrous consequences for the current order of things. Resources are scarce, so whoever controls the underwater mines controls everything. There’s a split between the people who live in naval colonies on the North Atlantic Archipelago and everyone else, namely pirates, mercenaries, or the drifters who trawl for plastics and other things they can trade for supplies. Our species has only survived because it’s managed to take to life on ships.
The oceans have risen and parts of them are dead. Humanity lives with the consequences of everything we in the twenty-first century have done to the Earth.
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