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The six letters flash across your mind, capitalised, bolded, underlined:

As in, the Azzurri mob. The largest organised crime syndicate in Portofiro.

Treaties, obligations to foreign banks and bureaucracies, third-party audits. All part of joining the Developed World.

Your new friend. KALEIDOSCOPE.

Ultra Violeta, the Luzian popstar. The one who seems to be everywhere, suddenly.

That popstar from La Luz.

The boy in the bazaar was quite proud of his wolf sword.

An incomplete record.

The one you claimed to have done yourself. The one you lied about.

Nice to know you're not the only disaster dealer around here.

The same package you saw in your visions.

Hauzmann wanted a poetry magazine from this place, didn't he?

Reno -- the city's pre-eminent capitalist and head of Renotel, of the dolphin-themed payphones.

The heartless man wanted a poetry magazine from this place, didn't he?

The old spy's poetry magazine should be somewhere in that mess.

EMTERR, a.k.a. L'Empire sans Territoire, a.k.a. 'The Bank'. Equal parts global development fund and spy service. Linchpin of the Developed World.

The Dream of Rustam. For eighty years, there were no kings or bosses -- only open councils, grain cooperatives, and radio poets. As the Developed World spread, the Dream cracked.

Carabineros: Portofiro's sanctioned police investigators. They report directly to the Prefectura and deal in actual crime -- murder, grand larceny, rape.

Asset VIRTUE: confirmed ZEROED OUT.

Even in this spectral form you recognise him -- Sweet Nestor, Portofiro's supreme leader.

Even in this spectral form you recognise him -- Sweet Nestor, Portofiro's supreme leader from the years 28 to 80.

La Luz. Once a powerful empire, now reconstituted as a modern techno-fascist state, the rising military and cultural power of the day.

La Luz: Expansive techno-fascist state known for high quality electronics, pogroms, and pop music.

The techno-fascist secret police of La Luz -- dark subconscious of the state, specialising in old school, ugly methods.

Sweet Nestor, Portofiro's supreme leader from the years 28 to 80.

Her face has lined and her body folded with age, but this is unmistakably the same woman you saw in the Palace of Culture.

Her face has lined and her body folded with age, but this is unmistakably the same woman you saw in the Palace of Culture.

Her face has lined and her body folded with age, but this is unmistakably the same woman you saw in the Palace of Culture.

Carmuna. The name on PSEUDOPOD's purchase order. Your double owes this woman a minuscule shipment of socks.

La Luz. Once a powerful empire, now reconstituted as a modern techno-fascist state, the rising military and cultural power of the day.

You haven't, not in five years...

La Luz. Once a powerful empire, now reconstituted as a modern techno-fascist state, the rising military and cultural power of the day.

A crematorium-sized mainframe of groaning reels and dust-choked cores, born in the Bloc's industrial dawn.

Project AUTONOMÍA was the name of Portofiro's space program. A national disaster.

The Reunión: La Luz's grand annexation campaign -- slow, legal, often bloody. A creeping tide reclaiming, every few years, one more of their old colonies.

EMTERR, a.k.a. L'Empire sans Territoire, a.k.a. 'The Bank'. Equal parts global development fund and spy service. Linchpin of the Developed World.

EMTERR, a.k.a. The Bank. Somewhere between a global development bank and a private intelligence service with allegiance to none but itself and capitalism, EMTERR is the Opera's wealthiest enemy -- and therefore yours.

The Reunión: La Luz's grand annexation campaign -- slow, legal, often bloody. A creeping tide reclaiming, every few years, one more of their old colonies.

Influential, feared on the international stage, but not remotely wealthy.

The threat of La Luz has been passed down for generations in Portofiro, the colonial boogeyman in the night -- the shadow that bore them, beat them.

Remember what the MIHO fax said: 'GO ALL THE WAY DOWN'.

'Boundaries are illusions; everything looks back.'

Rotanev: angel of predators and prey. Also dialectics and investment banking.

Renotel. A diversified communications company local to the state of Portofiro. Immediately recognisable by its dolphin logo.

EMTERR, a.k.a. L'Empire sans Territoire, a.k.a. 'The Bank'. Equal parts global development fund and spy service. Linchpin of the Developed World.

Carabineros: Portofiro's sanctioned police investigators. They report directly to the Prefectura and deal in actual crime -- murder, grand larceny, rape.

No, but you've seen those glasses.

'L' for Luz, as in Luzian Electro-Pop. A blend of traditional funeral ballads and cutting-edge synthesisers. Once a minor regional trend, today the ascendent musical form across the world.

Even in this spectral form you recognise him -- Sweet Nestor.

Even in this spectral form you recognise him -- Sweet Nestor, Portofiro's former supreme leader.

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