In the Year of the Cat (audio story)

In the of the Cat was a 2003 audio story in the Faction Paradox series.
== Publisher's summary ==
=== Faction Paradox website ===
An automaton provides a lesson in astrology; a monster is revealed to be sleeping in the royal bedchambers; the city's prostitutes prove that they know a thing or two about the Higher Powers; the trial of Grandfather Paradox is reconvened; Eliza fights the country in order to save the world; and new alliances are made while the Faction suffers one more casualty of War.
=== BBV Productions website ===
PRIMER FOR THE SPIRAL POLITIC (POST-WAR EDITION) 
4: THE MUNIFICENT ARMY OF PEKING
Era: human historical (later period). 
Technology: Military (self-contained), non-time-active.
By the end of the fifth millennium AD, the homunculi created by the human species -- clones, cross-breeds, fighting-machines and artificial intelligences of all descriptions -- outnumbered humanity by more than thirteen to one: but even so, there were no creations like those of Peking. Heading a thousand-strong army of individually-crafted automata, the twelve commanders were self-aware embodiments of the oriental zodiac, forged to a strict astrological design and said to incorporate history itself in their operating program. After the fall of Peking, however, most were never accounted for...
== Plot ==
to be added
== Cast ==
* Cousin Justine - Suzanne Proctor
* Lord Sandwich - Michael Chance
* The Sieur d'Eon - Jo Castleton
* Cousin Eliza - Emma Kilbey
* Mistress Culver - Jackie Skarvellis
* King George III - Eric MacLennan
* Queen Charlotte - Caroline Burns-Cook
* The Earl of Bute - Mark Grieg
* Annabel - Linda Bartram
== Worldbuilding ==
* Mistress Culver is revealed to be Compassion.
== Notes ==
* The letters "ANOT" were hidden in the skulls on the page for this story on the Faction Paradox website.The Faction Paradox Protocols, Volume 4
== Continuity ==
* One of the Peking Homunculi — the Pig — previously disappeared in TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang)
* Justine remarks that 50 years of War have transformed the Great Houses into "beasts", which they were shown to be in PROSE: 
== Footnotes ==
== External links ==
* Script of In the Year of the Cat at factionparadox.co.uk
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