Institutions
Marcus Cole Academy
Where Survey crews train — named for a captain sixty years dead.
In full
A statue and a motto and a set of corridors named after a man most cadets could not describe. That is what happens to the people the earlier books follow: they become the name over a door, like Cook or Nansen. The institution remembers the rank he invented and forgets the cost of inventing it.
Key facts
- Training establishment for Open Reach Survey crews.
- Named for Marcus Cole, first to hold the rank of Captain.
- Cole is sixty-plus years dead by the Guttering age.
- A clean door for new readers; a quiet ache for old ones.