The Navigations series tells a ry of a world where environmental and other disasters caused a break-down in government and society. Gradually, different areas formed new cultures, based on some aspect of the past they wished to imitate or preserve.
These cultures have formed Dominions, places of localized government, with wild land spaces between them and others.
Reesa Ghin lives in the Clemente Dominion, where technological aids to living are prized, but the cost of that technology is a high than normal number of mutations. And their society, sanitized in some ways, has led to an obsession with reality television, particularly the Gymkhana, where those labeled mutants or dissidents much participate in public mating.
Dominions include the Greoma, fashioned after ideas of ancient Greek and Roman culture, including worship of the ancient gods, slavery, male dominance, and arranged marriages.
In the Silverado, people joke how John Wayne is their patron saint, for they’ve created a world approximating the old west.
For those living in the Charlemagne, a culture seeking ideals of medieval culture, they face a problem of dwindling birth rate. Women are required to be married, often assigned their husbands by the Lord of the fief.
Darmian residents also struggle with fertility issues, but claim to live in a healthy and primitive fashion, eschewing the practices that led to the Greta Disaster. Women are prized and the culture claims men and women have equal rights.
Rivaldi citizens live in a strictly divided society of the poor and those with wealth, power and influence. Marriage is a contractual arrangement, but not for the wealthy, who chose long ago to use women only for their physical needs, hiring women for sex and the breeding of their heirs. A woman faced with poverty may have little option except to offer herself for a year’s contract to provide what the land-holder wants.
The Donaldson enjoys technological advancement and a high living standard, though those in debt can be sold into periods as bond-servants. A wealthy owner of a huge conglomerate is seeking power of a high order, and doesn’t expect anyone to oppose him.
In the Navigations series, readers will explore people in these place and others such as the Oasis, the Fair Play, the Aretou and many more. Life is better in the Aretou which some people seek to escape the injustices and oppression in their own Dominions, and there are others making progress in improving life for all their citizens, with the aid of a mysterious group wanting to support the process. But there are enemies as well, slowly being discerned and combated.