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 “Go on?”
-“That extra weight lends the piece a certain confidence, sir, but really it isn’t necessary. I mean, it might be handy in a scrape close-quarters, but over a long engagement, that’s going to wear you down.”
+“That extra weight lends the piece a certain confidence, sir, but really it isn’t necessary. I mean, it might be handy in a scrape at close-quarters, but over a prolonged engagement, that’s going to wear you down.”
-This was quite the piece of analysis. Whatever Farquhar was drilling him on in Eagle Squad was sinking in. “Very good. And what about construction?”
+This was quite the piece of analysis. Whatever they were drilling into him on the Eagle Cadet Training Programme was sinking in, fast. “Very good. And what about construction?”
-The boy deftly disassembled the piece and lined up the parts, studying then for a moment. “Finance-grade, for sure. Seems a bit over-engineered.” His hands flew urgently but carefully over the boilerplate. He ran through the standard Euro confi playbook. He must have committed it to memory. He didn’t miss a beat. The boy was well-drilled, Hare had to admit.
+The boy deftly disassembled the piece and lined up the parts, studying then for a moment. “Finance-grade, for sure. Seems a bit over-engineered.” His hands flew urgently but carefully over the [[reps]] magazine. He skittered through the standard confi [[playbook]], a kid hopping on stones to cross a river. ''Nimble''. He must have committed it to memory. He didn’t miss a beat. The boy was well-drilled: there was no denying it.
-“Limited scope, no affiliates, need to know. It looks good, sir. Plus points: it’s sleek, measured, nice baffle quotient in the early phases. I like the elaborate construction phase up front. Diverts a front-on attack."
+“Limited scope, no affiliates, need to know. It looks good, sir. Plus points: it’s sleek, measured, nice [[Infinite bafflement|baffle]] quotient in the early phases. I like the elaborate [[construction]] phase up front. Diverts a front-on attack."
 Hare purred. “See? That’s how you do it, lad."
-“ — But the balance is off by quite a bit, and there are a couple of backdoor security issues.”
+“ — But the balance is off by quite a bit, and there are a couple of back-door security issues.”
 “What?”
-“No [[NOM]] or EA. It’s susceptible to a D.E.A.A., sir. ”
+“No [[NOM]] or [[Entire agreement|EA]]. It’s susceptible to a D.E.A.A., sir. ”
 “Er, a D.E.A.A. —”
-“Denial of Entire Agreement attack, sir.” Cloyingly submissive, the little bastard. “Significant parol vulnerability.”
+“Denial of [[Entire agreement|Entire Agreement]] attack, sir.”
+''Cloyingly submissive, the little bastard.''
+“Significant parol vulnerability.”
 Hare gritted his teeth. “That’s excellent work, soldier. You’ve picked all all of the issues with this one. Strong analysis. I’m impressed. You are learning fast.”
-But the boy hasn’t finished.  “Oh, look at this. There’s a general indemnity. That’s mad! Who the hell fits one of those onto a ''confi''?
+The boy continued to inspect the [[Side letter|side-arm]].  “Oh, look at this. There’s a general [[indemnity]]. That’s mad! Who the hell fits one of those onto a ''confi''?
 Hare cleared his throat.
-The boy kept going. He flipped a catch. “What the hell ... A BOC indemnity!” He carefully set the piece down on the bench and started working at it with his red line. “That’s positively dangerous.”
+The boy flipped a catch. “What the hell ... A BOC indemnity!” He carefully set the piece down on the bench and started working at it with his [[redline]]. “That’s positively dangerous.”
 He made a couple of careful incisions and slowly, delicately, withdrew the offending mechanism and dropped it in a sterilised waste receptacle.
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 Hare looked on, warily. “I —”
-“That was close, sir.”
+“That was ''close'', sir.”
-Against his better judgement Hare heard himself blurt out, “What is a “bock indemnity”?”
+Against his better judgement, Hare heard himself blurt out, “What is a “bock indemnity”?”
-“It’s an indemnity for breach of contract, sir. Someone has crossed the wires here and routed a reimbursement covenant into the breach mechanism. The terminals are close together, and it’s easy to do, but standard reference works cite an elevated risk of localised explosion from this configuration. High degree of indeterminacy, exothermic chain reactions possible.”
+“It’s an [[indemnity]] in the [[breach of contract|contract breach]], sir. Someone has crossed the wires here and routed a [[reimbursement]] [[covenant]] into the breach mechanism. The terminals are close together, and it’s easy to do, but standard reference works cite an elevated risk of localised explosion from this configuration. High degree of [[Indeterminate liability|indeterminacy]], exothermic chain reactions possible.”
 “Oh, a Bee-Oh-Cee indemnity,” Hare said, quickly. “Right.”