Master of Formalities

pEven when finding oneself engaged in interstellar war, good form must be observed. Our story is set thousands of years after the Terran Exodus, where two powerful, planet-dominating familiesthe elegant House Jakabitus and the less refined Hahn Empirehave reached a critical point in their generations-long war. Master Hennik, the Hahn rulers only son, has been captured, and the disposition of his internment may represent a last and welcome chance for peace./ppEnter Wollard, the impeccably distinguished and impossibly correct Master of Formalities for House Jakabitus. When he suggests that Master Hennik be taken in as a ward of the House, certain