The Penal Battalion Found A Hidden Civilization Under The Dead Capital | Sci-Fi Story
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An officer commanding a penal labor battalion under a conquered capital starts losing prisoners in regular numbers, as if the tunnels themselves are requisitioning men. Beneath the rubble he discovers the old regime’s fallback city did not simply survive the conquest—it continued its state machinery in secret. The missing convicts are being taken, rebuilt, and fitted with the memories of dead civic and military functionaries, then returned below as loyal citizens of a capital they never lived in. What looks like disappearance is really conversion.
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