The Machinery – Engines of Certainty: Daily Order – Military Academy Wolf

Order is the only thing that protects people from one another. Everything else is weather. – Daily Order 1, Military Academy Wolf

DAILY ORDER No. 4,412 MILITARY ACADEMY WOLF, Government District, northern edge SIGNED: General A. Wolf, Commander of the Armed Forces and of the Academy READ OUT: 05:30, parade ground, in all weathers. There is one weather: overcast. 1. REVEILLE. 05:00. The cadets are standing before the tubes come on. Whoever rises after the light has been woken by the light and not by himself. The Academy does not train people who wait for something. 2. BEARING. The parade ground measures eighty by eighty metres. It is to be crossed in paces, not in metres; the paces are to be counted, and the count is to be reported. The count is one hundred and six. Cadets who report another count have counted wrongly. The Academy is aware that last year fourteen cadets independently reported one hundred and nine, each at first light, each along the eastern side. They were charged with miscounting. The Academy points out that the ground is not getting larger. The Academy points out that it has re-measured it, an...

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