The Last SPV: An Opco Boone Adventure
The Adventures of Opco Boone, Legal Ace™
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Espievies are dying out. They have never successfully been bred in captivity, and global regulatory warming is making their usual habitats hostile. Traditional breeding grounds — the Caribbean, the islands at the periphery of the European continent, south Pacific archipelagos are becoming increasingly polluted by a parasite which feeds on them: the red tapeworm. There are some mature specimens with legacy Tax rulings, known as the grand-fathers — but these are a finite commodity, are protected against hunting, in designated wildlife sanctuaries and in any case trade at massive premia on the black market.
Some commercial harvesting remains, but those that remain are weak, small ones, but they are gradually being fished out. Some poachers break into the sanctuaries of northern Europe where there experimental breeding programmes designed to reintroduce them for benign taxation planning
There is talk of a new supply of synthetic spvs flooding in from eastern Europe somewhere. Segue to hunting session.