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. 

Some Zetan had to have gotten an enter town or village and made them rebuild (unless they actually got the whole town). And the whole owning-an-ant-hill like situation. So Jolene probably can find one of those and all accessories. 

She’ll get an tier up in devotion from her Zetans from that, won’t she. 

And also, this island party will probably net her tons if fancy cloths from the leftovers. She already took an expensive ship, why stop there. 

Well, the terrorists so immediately dealt with after their assassination, morso if it was unsuccessful, by a human bounty hunter. And then everyone knowing that it happened removing tons of long readability, with anyone coming out of the woodwork being more easily targetable. The lack of leadership is also gong to cause enough chaos for these terrorists. 

Well, this it a truly fucked situation. Thought I can probably the way out…

Hope Jolene walked enough in heeled to start running in them for this situation. This is where some kind of tech comes to negate all the issues with high heeled walking somehow. Wether gyro, gravity/weight alteration, or maybe use the nano-materials for the sole and heels to flex and assist walking, some other think, or a combo of them all. Besides also what extra could be given for power armoured ones, like rockets or a gravity generator powerful enough for flight(or ship grade shrunk to fit), and mag boots. 

I do think thought that the existing town will have some successor with and even smaller scale, what with the cannon and the taste of the mansion. 

Sorry for clogging the reviews by the way. 

Could talk on the discord server.  

Oh. 

Someone so made a control setup to pilot power armour like a mecha. Possibly, say,  a large control ball with life the life support system the person goes into and is then shrunk to fit in some tiny armoured black box spot deep inside. (besides the actual attempts at making mechs, grav and scifi materials and all).

Whoch then made me realize the power armour based sex androids that have been made. And all the size related stuff. Probably one of the few legal ways to truly abuse and toy with shrunken things, besides VR. 

Besides the obvious for Jolene to have her mansion, enjoying her days with her zetans and have a normal colony to runs some businesses in the side (the latter makes sense), but with everything I’ve said better, being self sufficient able to sell food even sounds also like a good business, and Jolene could have some enjoyment from developing that ‘small’ part of her colony (even miniature habitation modules to have volume, space, and food, and not the other things)   

A whole side story could be made of the zetans, maybe some humans that eventually came along, trying to develop new things to entertain Jolene and make them practical for her uses (in both meanings). She already has a military shrink ray, give her engineers some more engineering equipment and time, and I be they could make it more practical for her (even if not to mass produce), then use it for her own purposes.

With your answer to Kessler’s questions on the shrink rays, why not have a shrink ray shrink a box of shrink rays, one is removed from the box to shrink the box, then don agains all the way down. I can guess its the whole process that make its hard to use this method for more efficiency, since a step smaller should be the normal amount of energy. Unless there are setups like this somewhere for something. 

Actually comes back to thinking that someone would shrink a shrink ray so they could have it, or multiple, in a gauntlet or gloves, for hiding and to make things even smaller. 

Maybe some theorized or ultra experimental one have several ‘pulses’ of shrinking in it, ones that only activate after being use, meaning also having been shrunk, so make the step-down process in one firing of sone ray. At best probably in a lab somewhere. 

And what about shrink pads/booths/chambers? Put the thing in the machine  and its shrunk. 

Anyway, your doing great, then its the finally and epilogue!

Oh, and a possible and interesting side story is, due to the Cephalos incursion ruining all the hyper-lanes, some cruse ship got stranded after a bad or emergency jump, so the crew and passengers shrunk to save on food and air. And for the years of drifting, or actual travel time to get back to known space to be saves, the made a town or two within the ship, like all my easier talk of using a full ecosystem in a cargo hold and having a micro colony. Only maybe a little bigger, could totally depend. 

Or some other civilization shrunk themselves to the mansion’s size or smaller so they could hid from the Cephalos in an ultra shielded container or facility, or even so re terraformed their planet with the shrunk life. Fun offshoot potential stories, and hopefully with enough erotica potential.  

Pretty good end. 

And of course Jolene would pick the desert with the western environment. Hope her other ventures, bot big and small, on that sand all go well.