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Reading B sometimes feels like two different stories on it’s own. When focusing on nanotech and onboards Basil’s PoV reads like a pure xenofiction.
But then there are chapters like this one which feels almost contemporary. Sure, there is still remote observation and perception manipulation, but otherwise it reads like a story about present day celebrity/reality tv culture, only exaggerated and scaled way up… A is a celebrity who got her status by chance and was bought by a company. Bas acts like her agent, Teegs try to retain control of her daughter, everyone wants to use her image and she has way too much influence through her rabid fans. And apparently Warner Brothers still want to make Cinematic Universe a thing…
Robert Simes is interesting. With enough scrutiny of onboards, the deep codes as described in this chapter are easily exposable - sooner or later someone will go through the first time they were used and I very much doubt kid A or Quin never spoke about them - and one mention is all it takes… (This is also why the fidelity trick over in W would get exposed the moment someone stumbles over the records of family kids first learning it.) But Robert managed to uncover the back channel even though it was fully constructed over unsupervised interface with no records - and even broadcast over it - when even Elabre seem to be in the dark. (Or are they aware but keep quiet?) I’m very interested ti learn more about him.
A this chapter managed to get one of her fans killed (unintentionally, at least) and demanded Basil to plan a murder to hide being a fraud… Yep, she is fitting into the celebrity culture, well…
So… are Orion and the others overzealous A fans who were stripped of memories of her by a court order and sent out to the furthest part of the belt?
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