Can't believe how sad the notion of Nea and Kurt being apart made me despite everything Nea has done. Also good for Joey, I wonder what hes gonna get tatooed though. 

Jolene is really enjoys her work doesn’t she. Guess she’ll also get a chance for more unwilling Zetans at this party, and considering their usage of other humans, Jolene might actually get her first taste of them as punishment, beadies obtaining the governor, some important looking people, and the princess. Cleaning her boots might be in order before seeing her girls again, if she stops on enough or through a ‘small’ crowd.

And two thoughts I had: ine the shrink tech was made, some Zetans long before the Earth invasion had to have filled the inside of a very big cargo ship with shrunken plant and wildlife, had it take over the floor or several, then shrunk themselves down with some industrial ray and live “in nature” at sub cm size. Of]r just whole other living. Probably cheeper and more isolated then looking for a whole new planet. even just set course for the void and not really be seen again. 

Or even had a shrink ray on on everything in the hold that slowly made things smaller. Takes consistent power, but way more time, so they might be even smaller then at first, after enough years. 

Shrunken communities, long term or constant shrink ray exposure, or even shrinking and already shrunk thing has to have been experimented with. (And a growth ray, what difficulties come from that) 

The second thought is, with high heels being a new thing from earth, and power armour already being a statement for a “warrior” culture, someone has had to try and train in them, make new fighting styles, or make the heels actually be practical. Classic me in this in wedges. Though depending on how tech work wen shrunk, someone could make and shrink a fancy stabilizer/compensator system (grave tech or other and install it into their boots with high heels. As much as it would be a small subset of enthusiasts who make/modify/customize their own armour. And theres gadda be dress armours, some empress in history making some requirement at her balls to be only in armour, and so everyone had to work on making them extra fancy for that time. 

And of course, shrinking normally big pieces of tech is used in places, save space on supercomputers, reactors and fuel storage, or other systems on ships. 

And a ten rating as always.