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From: Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five Stories About What Happens After You've Defeated
 the Big Bad
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2025 21:39:00 -0400
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On 6/4/25 10:11 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
> Five Stories About What Happens After You've Defeated the Big Bad
> 
> Mission accomplished! Quest completed! Now what...?
> 
> https://reactormag.com/five-stories-about-what-happens-after-youve-defeated-the-big-bad/

Here's one that mostly[1] fits:
Walter Jon Williams' Dread Empire's Fall series

Tony
[1] The last living Shaa wasn't defeated - he just died. There are six 
books and two novellas dealing with the fallout and the power vacuum.