When Amanda asks how they met, Martin reluctantly tells her the story about how Project Incubus became the Rowdy 3. Following from Martin being brought into Blackwing through their escape.

Elizabeth is lost in a cosmos of isolation. David is her only solace. Something has gone horribly wrong. [DavidXElizabeth] RATED FOR LEMONS

Amanda and Vogel rescue the other Rowdies only to find Martin being held separately and in bad shape.

When the young Corvo Attano won the Blade Verbena at 16, he never would have anticipated the path it would take him down. The years to follow would end up proving most eventful. Neither would Jessamine realize how much one man could impact the life of an all powerful Empress. (A mostly lore friendly take on Corvo and Jessamine's close relationship, and how it came to be)

Amanda adjusts to life with the Rowdy Three.

Let me tell you, dear reader, about happier times. Let me tell you about Jessamine Kaldwin, the Empress-to-be, and Corvo Attano, her Lord Protector. Let me tell you about the day they met, about the (mis)adventures they kept on getting themselves into, and how they fell in love. Let me tell you, about the most infamous affair in the Empire, and how much more there was to it.

He woke from stasis seeking revenge for an unspeakable crime and found himself face to face with his sworn enemies. She wanted to know why humanity's oldest friends had turned on them. But this time, instead of facing each other in a fight to the death, the two living survivors of the Prometheus expedition form an alliance. AU, Shaw/Engineer.