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SIV Endgame

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The Armourer

Opco timeline: 13
Characters: Hare, AJ, Burke Summary': Young AJ is learning from Hare [Palmer Jenkins] how to strip a Calc Agent Appointment Side Letter. He graduates to an Engagement Letter with an NDA “Silencer”. The Kid catches a number of defects Hare hadn’t noticed. Irritated, Hare sends him out to the Armoury for a long weight. Burke meets him [Annabel Lecteur/E/Cassie Lieberman]. Burke sends him to the stacks for a long weight, where A.J. finds all the calssics of the FWMD Canon including a biggs hoson. The Biggs is missing, “removed for security purposes”.
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The Gathering Storm

Opco timeline: 15
Characters: Sweeney, punchface, AJ Style: hary poter
Summary: Sweeney is stuck ina dead-end clerical job at Barringtons. Getting rings runaround him by Roly Punchface. AJ accosts him with the challenge of the call of adventure.
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The Trio sign up for war

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Enigma Variations

The Alpha Dens and the Vega Dens

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Lehman endgame

Opco timeline: 22
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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.
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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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