The ISDA Protocol

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SIV Endgame

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Characters: Bundie and his Unit (Frenchie, Chipstowe, Biff, Tucker, Swart, , and a young private named Obadiah Boone, together with radio operator at base Cassie Lieberman [COULD BE E/Annabel Lecteur]
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Summary: MCA drops remaining irregulars unit on the beach at Cayman brac. The mission is to liberate is a detachment of SICAVs help captive by enemy stocklending counterparts who are using it as a cheap source of sales credits. Tucker shows off his new “Liquidator” weapon. Chippy sets it off and Bundie shouts at them to be quiet. A huge mechanical SIV bursts through the trees and advances on them. The unit engages with the SICAV using several FWMDs such as self-referencing CLNs, CSAs and a sawn-off repo The SICAV doesn’t seem to be weakening under fire. They begin to realise this is no ordinary SICAV. Bundie bids young Obadiah take cover behind a tree stump and he bravely goes in to fight for his men. But it is a losing battle. Slowly the boys in the unit succumb: Tucker, Chipper, Swart and then Frenchie is blown apart from close range.
Textlink: SIV Endgame: An Opco Boone Adventure

Opco meets Algy and Janice at St. Ugland’s House

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The labyrinth of riddles

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The Trio sign up for war

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The Alpha Dens and the Vega Dens

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Lehman endgame

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Warehouse Maintenance Duty

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Lion’s Den

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Summary: Opco tracks down old fellow vet Felix. As the owner of a chain of Vega Dens, Felix has underworld connections. Boone is looking for leads to whoever is importing N02 into the EU. He realises too late that it is Felix himself. Felix monologues. Felix’s henchmen disarm Boone and prepare to throw him to a Batman style doom where he is tied up and allowed the opportunity to escape while some unfeasibly gravitational process that will, eventually, kill him is allowed to run its course.
Textlink: The Lion’s Den: An Opco Boone Adventure

Deltaview Force

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Characters: Opco, Algy, Janice Henderson, A.J., Roly Punchface, Squidboy Renfield, Annabel Lecteur [E?]
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Summary: Eagle Squad goes undercover into demilitarised zone to clear out derelict building [WHY/WHERE] with its device for searching for material differences. They detect movement with the deltaview, thinking they have found a Biggs particle. Behind them, they find a live squidboy in the rubble. He is booby-trapped with red herrings and unapproved pitchbooks. Squad radios back to base to get a Chinese wall thrown up. There is a CBT countdown alert. EVentually he gives up the pitchbook: Lexrifyly IPO. AJ picks it up to browse. He gets sucked in by the mesmerising text. Squidboy burbles about how clever the technology is, A.J. gets sucked into the vortex. Opco grabs the squidboy and goes in after him.
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NAV Trigger Point

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Characters: Boone, Denning, A.J.
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Summary: Boone floats above a planet, a legal eagle unchained and at the peak of his powers, surveilling the flickering taxo-grid below. Delirious, and egged on to do it by his Digital Voice Assistant Denning, he unshackles himself from his flight harness and floats free of all constraints, before feeling himself falling to earth, as the tranquil operations of the Risk management matrix collapse into reds and burst into flames. Denning won’t — can’t — override the control settings, and placidly watches as Boone falls andf the planet is engulfed in disaster.

Boone snaps out of a delirious dream with J-Rod and A.J frantically trhing to wake him. There is an emergency scramble. Legal Squad is mobilising.
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