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

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

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

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Your new friend. KALEIDOSCOPE.

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

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That popstar from La Luz.

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

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An incomplete record.

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

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

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The same package you saw in your visions.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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Asset VIRTUE: confirmed ZEROED OUT.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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'Boundaries are illusions; everything looks back.'

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

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

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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.

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

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No, but you've seen those glasses.

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'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.

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

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