Financial crisisWhorl

Oh, and there's another crisis that awaits Silk---fiscal bankruptcy. What happens to a society, already in chaos, with its infrastructure unmaintainable, when its wealth is suddenly co-opted to another purpose (repairing the circuitry of the Whorl or the lifeboats that make it possible to leave the Whorl? Those taluses are going to be essential! (But how to pay for them?) -alga-