I will be the very first to admit that this is not one of my stronger bits of work. I was honestly looking for some way to "flesh out" Gears a bit more, and sort of shoehorned Iceberg in to it. If it's rubbish, please say so, or let me know how to improve it…or both. I like some of the stuff this touches on, but the flow and form bug me.
…then again, I dislike about 75% of everything I write, so I may have a bias…