The Seventh Circle

The Seventh Circle is the fifth chapter in Invasion. It is authored by Mercedes Lackey, Steve Libbey, Cody Martin, and Dennis Lee. The events in The Seventh Circle occur in a variety of key locations: Atlanta, Georgia; and Moscow, Russia. This chapter concludes Part One: Invasion in the book.

Synopsis
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Key Events
Like the first chapter, Before the Storm, The Seventh Circle is broken down into sequential "snapshots" of characters. In this chapter, many of the events are meant to take place simultaneously. These snapshots do not have timestamps, but callsigns indicate the point of view character in some of the pieces.
 * Atlanta, Georgia, USA - Callsign Seraphym
 * ECHO Headquarters, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
 * Moscow, Russia - Callsign Red Saviour
 * Atlanta, Georgia, USA - Callsign John Murdock
 * Atlanta, Georgia, USA - Callsign Seraphym
 * Atlanta, Georgia, USA - Callsign Mercurye
 * Atlanta, Georgia, USA - Callsign Red Djinni
 * Atlanta, Georgia, USA - Callsign Victoria Victrix

Cast of Characters
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Other key entities first mentioned in this chapter:


 * Lebensraum describes the virus that destroyed most of the ECHO server farms during the invasion
 * Partial list of ECHO facilities includes: Albuquerque, Amarillo, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles.
 * Metis computers are located "deep under the Andes, where Uncle Tesla and Enrico Fermi's electrical intelligence matricies lorded over the system like kings."
 * The Russian president presents Red Saviour with a letter inviting Worker's Champion and Red Saviour I to meet with Tesla.
 * Reports put ECHO's losses at three-fourths of OpTwos and OpThrees.
 * Tesla's remote lab is given as Ten Falls Road, and resembles an abandoned gas station. It is marked with the alchemical symbol for air, Echo's "adopted logo."