LA LUZ

"Why are you so keen to get out of La Luz?"

The Hundred-Eyed Golem. One of the most feared and hated men in La Luz.

"How's things back in La Luz?"

"It's not perfect, but I'd say it's the only reason La Luz haven't drowned us in their detritus yet."

"You mean it's coming from La Luz."

"The prisoner told us about a secret treaty between the Bank and La Luz -- which brings us to the guy we have to wiretap..."

"Yeah. In some ways, La Luz already owns Portofiro."

"La Luz's Minister of Mass Culture is in town."

"La Luz is a brutal techno-fascist empire, Rams, there's nothing 'subtle' about it."

"And then La Luz will flood the Developed World with all that futuristic techno stuff? Sounds very, very naughty Frederik."

The old man rolls over in the water, takes one last look in the direction of La Luz, then slips below the dark surface.

The old man's body rolls over in the water -- takes one last look in the direction of La Luz -- then slips below the dark surface.

Cicatriz Frontera, La Luz. Fabricators from the Ministry of Cosmonautics present three custom spacesuits for inspection. A young publicist with severely angular hair scans them, then shakes her head and says, 'She'll want one in all purple'.

"And presumably on his way back to La Luz, while they're picking chunks of his main rival off an aero-tram. How lucky for him, it sounds as though he won this whole thing."

"And presumably on his way back to La Luz, while his main rival has been rendered an inert mass. How lucky for him, it sounds as though he won this whole thing."

"And presumably on his way back to La Luz, while they're hosing the blood of his main rival off an aero-tram. How lucky for him, it sounds as though he won this whole thing."

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

"That's why the song's never been released. Ultra Violeta fled La Luz rather than perform it."

The Weeping Eye -- La Luz's secret police. The dark subconscious of the state.

"Safe to say, thousands of La Luz's sharpest are attending to a fix. Not that they were given a choice."

"Freshly acquired, direct from La Luz." (Show the imprinting device.)

"Basic semiotics, I'd say. Financial capital always craves cultural capital. La Luz is on the bleeding edge of that -- what EMTERR can't digest, it must expel."

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

"Well, there was a certain period, in the early years of Portofiran independence, when everybody on this cursed island was holding their breath waiting for La Luz to invade. But nothing happened."

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

But that's in La Luz!

La Luz has never acknowledged the existence of any official space program.

And what of La Luz?

And somewhere beyond them: the shores of La Luz.