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Fedo ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 9 Mind Clash ................................................................................................................................................................................10 Dam-Torsad ..............................................................................................................................................................................12 Society of Conscious Thought ...............................................................................................................................................13 Vitoc ...........................................................................................................................................................................................15 Quafe .........................................................................................................................................................................................17 Fatal and The rabbit ................................................................................................................................................................18 War Tattoos ..............................................................................................................................................................................20 Outer Ring Excavations...........................................................................................................................................................21 Egonics Inc. ...............................................................................................................................................................................22 Language Translators ..............................................................................................................................................................24 The Hanging Long-limb ...........................................................................................................................................................25 The Truth Serum ......................................................................................................................................................................26 Directive Enforcement Department.....................................................................................................................................28 Kyonoke Pit ...............................................................................................................................................................................29 Slaver .........................................................................................................................................................................................31 Amarr Succession ....................................................................................................................................................................32 Tyma Raitaru ............................................................................................................................................................................34 Lady Phanca’s Pet Furrier.......................................................................................................................................................35 Myth of a Salesman.................................................................................................................................................................36 The Day of Darkness................................................................................................................................................................38 The Prophecy of Macaper ......................................................................................................................................................39 Heaven.......................................................................................................................................................................................41 Gallente-Caldari War: The Early Days ..................................................................................................................................42 The Elite.....................................................................................................................................................................................43 CONCORD..................................................................................................................................................................................44 Gallente-Caldari War: The Breakout ....................................................................................................................................46 Rebel With a Cause .................................................................................................................................................................48 The Khanid Kingdom ...............................................................................................................................................................49 Gallente-Caldari War: The War Drones On.........................................................................................................................51 The Blood Raiders....................................................................................................................................................................53 Sisters of EVE ............................................................................................................................................................................54 The InterBus .............................................................................................................................................................................55 The Armageddon Project .......................................................................................................................................................56 The Scope..................................................................................................................................................................................57 Konrakas....................................................................................................................................................................................58 The Right Man, the Right Place .............................................................................................................................................59 The Peralles Incident...............................................................................................................................................................60 The Encounter ..........................................................................................................................................................................61 The Spider Miner .....................................................................................................................................................................62 The Ammatars ..........................................................................................................................................................................63 Sansha's Nation........................................................................................................................................................................65 Time and the Astrologer.........................................................................................................................................................67 Payday .......................................................................................................................................................................................69 Secure Commerce Commission ............................................................................................................................................70 Prey Miner ................................................................................................................................................................................71 Leech Capital ............................................................................................................................................................................72 Loser...........................................................................................................................................................................................74 The Titans..................................................................................................................................................................................76 Camera Drones ........................................................................................................................................................................77 Timeout .....................................................................................................................................................................................78 The Sarpati Family ...................................................................................................................................................................80 Doppleganger ...........................................................................................................................................................................82 A Visit Worthwile .....................................................................................................................................................................84 Ametat and Avetat ..................................................................................................................................................................86 Old Man Star.............................................................................................................................................................................89 The Vicious Cycle .....................................................................................................................................................................92 Silphy..........................................................................................................................................................................................93 Maleatu Shakor........................................................................................................................................................................95 Rouge Drones ...........................................................................................................................................................................97 Power Politics ...........................................................................................................................................................................99 Mordu's Legion ..................................................................................................................................................................... 101 Repair Man ............................................................................................................................................................................ 103 New Horizons ........................................................................................................................................................................ 105 The Vampire .......................................................................................................................................................................... 107 Fait Accompli ......................................................................................................................................................................... 109 Kiss of the Soul ...................................................................................................................................................................... 112 Serpent's Coil......................................................................................................................................................................... 114 City of God ............................................................................................................................................................................. 115 Heideran Gets the Adonis ................................................................................................................................................... 116 One Man Too Many ............................................................................................................................................................. 117 State Factionalism ................................................................................................................................................................ 119 The Science of Never Again ................................................................................................................................................ 121 Three Pillars of Power.......................................................................................................................................................... 126 Khuumak ................................................................................................................................................................................ 127 Tides of Change..................................................................................................................................................................... 130 The Communication Relay Committee ............................................................................................................................. 133 Aurora ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 135 STAR ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 137 ISD ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 139 Children of Light.................................................................................................................................................................... 141 Bug Hunters ........................................................................................................................................................................... 143 The Cult of Tetrimon ............................................................................................................................................................ 145 Big Fish, Little Fish ................................................................................................................................................................ 147 The Battle of Vak’Atioth ...................................................................................................................................................... 150 Stairway to Heaven .............................................................................................................................................................. 153 The Outcast............................................................................................................................................................................ 154 Hands of a Killer .................................................................................................................................................................... 156 The Crystal Boulevard .......................................................................................................................................................... 158 Cold Wind............................................................................................................................................................................... 161 The Greatest Joke ................................................................................................................................................................. 164 "Postnatal"............................................................................................................................................................................. 169 "The Shrinking Skin" ............................................................................................................................................................. 172 Eye For an Eye ....................................................................................................................................................................... 178 Fedo Song............................................................................................................................................................................... 179 The History Of Flight ............................................................................................................................................................ 185 Methods Of Torture ............................................................................................................................................................. 190 The Amarr.............................................................................................................................. 190 The Minmatar ........................................................................................................................ 194 The Gallente .......................................................................................................................... 198 The Caldari............................................................................................................................. 204 The Speakers Of Truth ......................................................................................................................................................... 209 Godflesh ................................................................................................................................................................................. 211 Soft Passage........................................................................................................................................................................... 216 Invisible Waves ..................................................................................................................................................................... 221 The Speaker of Truths.......................................................................................................................................................... 228 Sand Giants ............................................................................................................................................................................ 236 Post Mortem.......................................................................................................................................................................... 242 Most Ancient ......................................................................................................................................................................... 247 In the Electric Museum........................................................................................................................................................ 252 A Mind of Infinite Complexity ............................................................................................................................................ 261 Terms ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 267 Winter Came While You Were Away ................................................................................................................................ 274 Summer Breeze..................................................................................................................................................................... 280 Aura......................................................................................................................................................................................... 287 Black Mountain ..................................................................................................................................................................... 293 On This Earth ......................................................................................................................... 293 Inertial................................................................................................................................... 298 The Room .............................................................................................................................. 303 The First Half.......................................................................................................................... 307 Of a Sentence......................................................................................................................... 313 A Man of Peace ...................................................................................................................... 318 Some Dying Angel .................................................................................................................. 325 Hyperconsciousness ............................................................................................................... 332 Pushing Towards Bliss............................................................................................................. 336 The Canvas............................................................................................................................. 341 A Pleasant Surprise................................................................................................................. 346 The Sanctuary ........................................................................................................................ 350 Polymelia ............................................................................................................................... 354 Black Mountain ...................................................................................................................... 363 Dismantling............................................................................................................................ 369 Sounding the Horns of the Hunt .............................................................................................. 375 Daughters of the Revolution .............................................................................................................................................. 381 Hometown Heroes ............................................................................................................................................................... 386 The Lottery............................................................................................................................................................................. 391 Murder and Creation ........................................................................................................................................................... 396 A Boy and His Slaver............................................................................................................................................................. 400 A Life In Three Acts............................................................................................................................................................... 403 With Acknowledgments to Mad Dogs .............................................................................................................................. 407 Of God and Her Beast .......................................................................................................................................................... 413 Silent Furies ........................................................................................................................................................................... 419 The Paths They Chose .......................................................................................................................................................... 424 The Dark End of Space ......................................................................................................................................................... 432 The Better Part of Valor ...................................................................................................................................................... 438 All These Wayward Children............................................................................................................................................... 443 Masks of Authority ............................................................................................................................................................... 448 Her Painted Selves................................................................................................................................................................ 452 Cities of Refuge ..................................................................................................................................................................... 458 And to Live in Peace ............................................................................................................................................................. 463 A World Where No Such Road Will Run .......................................................................................................................... 470 All Tomorrow’s Bodies......................................................................................................................................................... 473 Tomorrow a Dream .............................................................................................................................................................. 481 Wild Earth .............................................................................................................................................................................. 484 The Part Where I Play the Devil ......................................................................................................................................... 492 Beasts of the Field ................................................................................................................................................................ 499 Under the Sea, the City........................................................................................................................................................ 507 Kameiras................................................................................................................................................................................. 514 Chained to the Sky................................................................................................................................................................ 517 Two Deaths ............................................................................................................................................................................ 524 End of the World................................................................................................................................................................... 530 The Spiral............................................................................................................................... 530 Half a Life............................................................................................................................... 533 1............................................................................................................................................ 536 The Great Harvest .................................................................................................................. 541 We Humans ........................................................................................................................... 545 World on Fire ......................................................................................................................... 551 In the Pits ............................................................................................................................................................................... 561 Scars ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 567 All These Lives are Fit to Ruin............................................................................................................................................. 572 And Sometimes the Fear ..................................................................................................................................................... 580 Houses of the Holy ............................................................................................................................................................... 588 Depth of Field ........................................................................................................................................................................ 594 Spectral................................................................................................................................................................................... 597 Taught Thoughts ................................................................................................................................................................... 602 The Vitrauze Project............................................................................................................................................................. 607 The Ever-Turning Wheels .................................................................................................................................................... 612 The Precious Tableau ........................................................................................................................................................... 616 The Human Painting............................................................................................................................................................. 620 Blind Auction ......................................................................................................................................................................... 624 A Man of Values and Faith .................................................................................................................................................. 632 Prosopagnosia ....................................................................................................................................................................... 637 Present Pieces ....................................................................................................................................................................... 645 A Beautiful Face .................................................................................................................................................................... 656 Part One ................................................................................................................................ 656 Part Two ................................................................................................................................ 661 The Mercenaries ................................................................................................................................................................... 667 Part One ................................................................................................................................ 667 Part Two ................................................................................................................................ 672 Part Three.............................................................................................................................. 676 Part Four................................................................................................................................ 682 The Slow Disease .................................................................................................................................................................. 690 Signs of Faith ......................................................................................................................................................................... 694 Merely Disassembled........................................................................................................................................................... 697 Caldari Funds Unlimited ...................................................................................................................................................... 702 Introduction........................................................................................................................... 702 Retirement Fund Management and Financial Instruments ........................................................ 703 Corporate Banking.................................................................................................................. 705 Relations With the Big Eight .................................................................................................... 705 Chasing Shadows .................................................................................................................................................................. 707 Ante......................................................................................................................................................................................... 712 Black Eagles ........................................................................................................................................................................... 717 Extinction Burst..................................................................................................................................................................... 720 Valklears ................................................................................................................................................................................. 723 Anoikis .................................................................................................................................................................................... 725 Xenocracy............................................................................................................................................................................... 734 Lost Stars ................................................................................................................................................................................ 738 The Ressurrection Men ....................................................................................................................................................... 747 The Rite .................................................................................................................................................................................. 753 Innocent Faces ...................................................................................................................................................................... 759 Burnt ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 766 Jita 4-4 .................................................................................................................................................................................... 773 Part I ..................................................................................................................................... 773 Part II..................................................................................................................................... 783 Tattoos.................................................................................................................................................................................... 786 Rust Creeps ............................................................................................................................................................................ 789 Hona is Three......................................................................................................................................................................... 795 The Desert Fathers ............................................................................................................................................................... 803 King Slaver.............................................................................................................................................................................. 810 The Plague Years................................................................................................................................................................... 817 The Book of Emptiness ........................................................................................................................................................ 824 Part One ................................................................................................................................ 824 Part Two ................................................................................................................................ 828 Uplifted................................................................................................................................................................................... 834 A Fedo is a fairly small (ca. 30-50 cm long, 20-40 cm high) animal originating in underground caves on the planet Palpis. The planet was settled by the Amarrians long ago, and the Fedo has spread with Amarr vessels throughout the galaxy cluster ever since. The Fedo is an omnivorous, sponge-like creature. It has reddish skin and numerous small claw-like tentacles which it uses to move around and protect itself. A primitive being, the Fedo's method of eating and absorbing nutrition is slow and inefficient. This means that food stays for a long time in the Fedo’s body, and will most often have rotted or turned foul before the animal passes it out of its system. The Fedos eject fumes from their body which, for the reasons explained above, have a most horrible odor. The Fedos possess a fantastic sense of smell and so use these fumes to communicate with each other; they are however both blind and deaf, having no eyes or ears. The mouth is located on the underside of the beast, and the Fedo feeds by positioning itself over the food and lowering itself down on it. Fedos are an incredibly strong and resilient species. They can live in total vacuum for several hours before succumbing to the cold and lack of oxygen. Some Matari have used this fact to their advantage, employing Fedos on many of their ships for cleaning and garbage disposal. The Fedos are especially useful in that they can clean the ship on the outside as well as the inside; they can get to hard-to-reach areas on the ship and, most importantly, will exterminate many of the pesky bacteria commonly found on space ships. The Matari feed the Fedos with every scrap of waste produced on the ship, letting the beasts roam free around the vessel and even outside it. This saves money, but the downside is the foul stench produced by the Fedos, something which discourages most everybody from using them. There is a distinct difference between male and female Fedos. The female is slightly larger and has redder skin. It has a point-like tail or sting, approx. 10 cm long. The female Fedo can emit highly toxic fumes from a small opening at the end of the tail, which can cause intense skin irritation and discomfort for a human. For this reason, only male Fedos are used as ship cleaners. Most ships employing Fedos have a special nursery room where female Fedos are kept to replenish the on-board Fedo stock. This is necessary as the Fedo's life cycle is only a few weeks long. Mind Clash is a very popular sport throughout known space. It is as enthusiastically played in the royal court on Amarr Prime as in the gambling halls of the Caldari. The Clash Masters – the best players from around the worlds – are superstars, awed and adored equally among Gallentean yuppies and Minmatar punks. The game itself evolved from a simple computer game called Clash of Wits, where two participants played the roles of puppet masters, using various kinds of creatures and forces to attack each other until either one of them caved in. The game was fairly popular among teenagers and young adolescents, but not a phenomenon in any sense of the word. The extensive advances made in neural- and cyber-technology through the years then paved the way for a new version of the game, where the players didn’t control a computer-generated puppet master, but rather stepped into the role of puppet- master themselves. The illusions – fantastical creatures, monsters, phenomena – were still only bits and bytes in a computer, but due to the strength of the connection between the mind and the machine, this didn’t make them any less dangerous to a puppet master made of flesh and blood. Even if participants couldn’t be ripped to pieces in the literal sense, the potential psycho-trauma caused by the constant barrage on the brain could easily reduce a stout man to a whimpering wreck in mere moments. Actually, the illusory creatures and phenomena are only there for the show – doing nothing by themselves, they simply portray in visual terms what actually is going on behind the scenes in the minds of the participants. The actions and state of the illusion give ample indication of the actual events of the struggle to the spectators. These illusions are, in modern arenas, often projected as holograms above the participants. All the stars of the game have their own exclusive repertoire of personally trademarked illusions. This, coupled with flashy outfits and catchy nicknames, makes each of the major stars easily distinguishable to the fans. In addition to the illusions huge screens dot the arenas where duels are held, broadcasting images and information to the masses ogling the match. These consist mainly of things like facial close-ups of the sweating contestants, or detailed data- charts on the status of their mental and bodily state. The new version of the game was called Mind Clash. Since its release over a century ago the game has grown into a full-fledged sport, with billions of fans and billions in revenue generated. The inevitable development has been that Mind Clash is now one of the biggest entertainment forms around – with all the stardom, hangers-on, aspiration dreams, gambling and showmanship that goes with it. For many, the Worlds Championship is the major event of each calendar year. During that massive event, the sixteen best players from all around the star cluster gather to slug it out. Although rumors of fixed matches and rigged results have somewhat tainted the image of the event (and the sport as a whole), it remains a huge attraction for more or less everybody, and Mind Clash betting is one of the favorite pastimes of billions of people.

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Fedo ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 9 Mind Clash ................................................................................................................................................................................10 Dam-Torsad ..............................................................................................................................................................................12 Society of Conscious Thought ...............................................................................................................................................13 Vitoc ...........................................................................................................................................................................................15 Quafe .........................................................................................................................................................................................17 Fatal and The rabbit ................................................................................................................................................................18 War Tattoos ..............................................................................................................................................................................20 Outer Ring Excavations...........................................................................................................................................................21 Egonics Inc. ...............................................................................................................................................................................22 Language Translators ..............................................................................................................................................................24 The Hanging Long-limb ...........................................................................................................................................................25 The Truth Serum ......................................................................................................................................................................26 Directive Enforcement Department.....................................................................................................................................28 Kyonoke Pit ...............................................................................................................................................................................29 Slaver .........................................................................................................................................................................................31 Amarr Succession ....................................................................................................................................................................32 Tyma Raitaru ............................................................................................................................................................................34 Lady Phanca’s Pet Furrier.......................................................................................................................................................35 Myth of a Salesman.................................................................................................................................................................36 The Day of Darkness................................................................................................................................................................38 The Prophecy of Macaper ......................................................................................................................................................39 Heaven.......................................................................................................................................................................................41 Gallente-Caldari War: The Early Days ..................................................................................................................................42 The Elite.....................................................................................................................................................................................43 CONCORD..................................................................................................................................................................................44 Gallente-Caldari War: The Breakout ....................................................................................................................................46 Rebel With a Cause .................................................................................................................................................................48 The Khanid Kingdom ...............................................................................................................................................................49 Gallente-Caldari War: The War Drones On.........................................................................................................................51 The Blood Raiders....................................................................................................................................................................53 Sisters of EVE ............................................................................................................................................................................54 The InterBus .............................................................................................................................................................................55 The Armageddon Project .......................................................................................................................................................56 The Scope..................................................................................................................................................................................57 Konrakas....................................................................................................................................................................................58 The Right Man, the Right Place .............................................................................................................................................59 The Peralles Incident...............................................................................................................................................................60 The Encounter ..........................................................................................................................................................................61 The Spider Miner .....................................................................................................................................................................62 The Ammatars ..........................................................................................................................................................................63 Sansha's Nation........................................................................................................................................................................65 Time and the Astrologer.........................................................................................................................................................67 Payday .......................................................................................................................................................................................69 Secure Commerce Commission ............................................................................................................................................70 Prey Miner ................................................................................................................................................................................71 Leech Capital ............................................................................................................................................................................72 Loser...........................................................................................................................................................................................74 The Titans..................................................................................................................................................................................76 Camera Drones ........................................................................................................................................................................77 Timeout .....................................................................................................................................................................................78 The Sarpati Family ...................................................................................................................................................................80 Doppleganger ...........................................................................................................................................................................82 A Visit Worthwile .....................................................................................................................................................................84 Ametat and Avetat ..................................................................................................................................................................86 Old Man Star.............................................................................................................................................................................89 The Vicious Cycle .....................................................................................................................................................................92 Silphy..........................................................................................................................................................................................93 Maleatu Shakor........................................................................................................................................................................95 Rouge Drones ...........................................................................................................................................................................97 Power Politics ...........................................................................................................................................................................99 Mordu's Legion ..................................................................................................................................................................... 101 Repair Man ............................................................................................................................................................................ 103 New Horizons ........................................................................................................................................................................ 105 The Vampire .......................................................................................................................................................................... 107 Fait Accompli ......................................................................................................................................................................... 109 Kiss of the Soul ...................................................................................................................................................................... 112 Serpent's Coil......................................................................................................................................................................... 114 City of God ............................................................................................................................................................................. 115 Heideran Gets the Adonis ................................................................................................................................................... 116 One Man Too Many ............................................................................................................................................................. 117 State Factionalism ................................................................................................................................................................ 119 The Science of Never Again ................................................................................................................................................ 121 Three Pillars of Power.......................................................................................................................................................... 126 Khuumak ................................................................................................................................................................................ 127 Tides of Change..................................................................................................................................................................... 130 The Communication Relay Committee ............................................................................................................................. 133 Aurora ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 135 STAR ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 137 ISD ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 139 Children of Light.................................................................................................................................................................... 141 Bug Hunters ........................................................................................................................................................................... 143 The Cult of Tetrimon ............................................................................................................................................................ 145 Big Fish, Little Fish ................................................................................................................................................................ 147 The Battle of Vak’Atioth ...................................................................................................................................................... 150 Stairway to Heaven .............................................................................................................................................................. 153 The Outcast............................................................................................................................................................................ 154 Hands of a Killer .................................................................................................................................................................... 156 The Crystal Boulevard .......................................................................................................................................................... 158 Cold Wind............................................................................................................................................................................... 161 The Greatest Joke ................................................................................................................................................................. 164 "Postnatal"............................................................................................................................................................................. 169 "The Shrinking Skin" ............................................................................................................................................................. 172 Eye For an Eye ....................................................................................................................................................................... 178 Fedo Song............................................................................................................................................................................... 179 The History Of Flight ............................................................................................................................................................ 185 Methods Of Torture ............................................................................................................................................................. 190 The Amarr.............................................................................................................................. 190 The Minmatar ........................................................................................................................ 194 The Gallente .......................................................................................................................... 198 The Caldari............................................................................................................................. 204 The Speakers Of Truth ......................................................................................................................................................... 209 Godflesh ................................................................................................................................................................................. 211 Soft Passage........................................................................................................................................................................... 216 Invisible Waves ..................................................................................................................................................................... 221 The Speaker of Truths.......................................................................................................................................................... 228 Sand Giants ............................................................................................................................................................................ 236 Post Mortem.......................................................................................................................................................................... 242 Most Ancient ......................................................................................................................................................................... 247 In the Electric Museum........................................................................................................................................................ 252 A Mind of Infinite Complexity ............................................................................................................................................ 261 Terms ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 267 Winter Came While You Were Away ................................................................................................................................ 274 Summer Breeze..................................................................................................................................................................... 280 Aura......................................................................................................................................................................................... 287 Black Mountain ..................................................................................................................................................................... 293 On This Earth ......................................................................................................................... 293 Inertial................................................................................................................................... 298 The Room .............................................................................................................................. 303 The First Half.......................................................................................................................... 307 Of a Sentence......................................................................................................................... 313 A Man of Peace ...................................................................................................................... 318 Some Dying Angel .................................................................................................................. 325 Hyperconsciousness ............................................................................................................... 332 Pushing Towards Bliss............................................................................................................. 336 The Canvas............................................................................................................................. 341 A Pleasant Surprise................................................................................................................. 346 The Sanctuary ........................................................................................................................ 350 Polymelia ............................................................................................................................... 354 Black Mountain ...................................................................................................................... 363 Dismantling............................................................................................................................ 369 Sounding the Horns of the Hunt .............................................................................................. 375 Daughters of the Revolution .............................................................................................................................................. 381 Hometown Heroes ............................................................................................................................................................... 386 The Lottery............................................................................................................................................................................. 391 Murder and Creation ........................................................................................................................................................... 396 A Boy and His Slaver............................................................................................................................................................. 400 A Life In Three Acts............................................................................................................................................................... 403 With Acknowledgments to Mad Dogs .............................................................................................................................. 407 Of God and Her Beast .......................................................................................................................................................... 413 Silent Furies ........................................................................................................................................................................... 419 The Paths They Chose .......................................................................................................................................................... 424 The Dark End of Space ......................................................................................................................................................... 432 The Better Part of Valor ...................................................................................................................................................... 438 All These Wayward Children............................................................................................................................................... 443 Masks of Authority ............................................................................................................................................................... 448 Her Painted Selves................................................................................................................................................................ 452 Cities of Refuge ..................................................................................................................................................................... 458 And to Live in Peace ............................................................................................................................................................. 463 A World Where No Such Road Will Run .......................................................................................................................... 470 All Tomorrow’s Bodies......................................................................................................................................................... 473 Tomorrow a Dream .............................................................................................................................................................. 481 Wild Earth .............................................................................................................................................................................. 484 The Part Where I Play the Devil ......................................................................................................................................... 492 Beasts of the Field ................................................................................................................................................................ 499 Under the Sea, the City........................................................................................................................................................ 507 Kameiras................................................................................................................................................................................. 514 Chained to the Sky................................................................................................................................................................ 517 Two Deaths ............................................................................................................................................................................ 524 End of the World................................................................................................................................................................... 530 The Spiral............................................................................................................................... 530 Half a Life............................................................................................................................... 533 1............................................................................................................................................ 536 The Great Harvest .................................................................................................................. 541 We Humans ........................................................................................................................... 545 World on Fire ......................................................................................................................... 551 In the Pits ............................................................................................................................................................................... 561 Scars ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 567 All These Lives are Fit to Ruin............................................................................................................................................. 572 And Sometimes the Fear ..................................................................................................................................................... 580 Houses of the Holy ............................................................................................................................................................... 588 Depth of Field ........................................................................................................................................................................ 594 Spectral................................................................................................................................................................................... 597 Taught Thoughts ................................................................................................................................................................... 602 The Vitrauze Project............................................................................................................................................................. 607 The Ever-Turning Wheels .................................................................................................................................................... 612 The Precious Tableau ........................................................................................................................................................... 616 The Human Painting............................................................................................................................................................. 620 Blind Auction ......................................................................................................................................................................... 624 A Man of Values and Faith .................................................................................................................................................. 632 Prosopagnosia ....................................................................................................................................................................... 637 Present Pieces ....................................................................................................................................................................... 645 A Beautiful Face .................................................................................................................................................................... 656 Part One ................................................................................................................................ 656 Part Two ................................................................................................................................ 661 The Mercenaries ................................................................................................................................................................... 667 Part One ................................................................................................................................ 667 Part Two ................................................................................................................................ 672 Part Three.............................................................................................................................. 676 Part Four................................................................................................................................ 682 The Slow Disease .................................................................................................................................................................. 690 Signs of Faith ......................................................................................................................................................................... 694 Merely Disassembled........................................................................................................................................................... 697 Caldari Funds Unlimited ...................................................................................................................................................... 702 Introduction........................................................................................................................... 702 Retirement Fund Management and Financial Instruments ........................................................ 703 Corporate Banking.................................................................................................................. 705 Relations With the Big Eight .................................................................................................... 705 Chasing Shadows .................................................................................................................................................................. 707 Ante......................................................................................................................................................................................... 712 Black Eagles ........................................................................................................................................................................... 717 Extinction Burst..................................................................................................................................................................... 720 Valklears ................................................................................................................................................................................. 723 Anoikis .................................................................................................................................................................................... 725 Xenocracy............................................................................................................................................................................... 734 Lost Stars ................................................................................................................................................................................ 738 The Ressurrection Men ....................................................................................................................................................... 747 The Rite .................................................................................................................................................................................. 753 Innocent Faces ...................................................................................................................................................................... 759 Burnt ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 766 Jita 4-4 .................................................................................................................................................................................... 773 Part I ..................................................................................................................................... 773 Part II..................................................................................................................................... 783 Tattoos.................................................................................................................................................................................... 786 Rust Creeps ............................................................................................................................................................................ 789 Hona is Three......................................................................................................................................................................... 795 The Desert Fathers ............................................................................................................................................................... 803 King Slaver.............................................................................................................................................................................. 810 The Plague Years................................................................................................................................................................... 817 The Book of Emptiness ........................................................................................................................................................ 824 Part One ................................................................................................................................ 824 Part Two ................................................................................................................................ 828 Uplifted................................................................................................................................................................................... 834 A Fedo is a fairly small (ca. 30-50 cm long, 20-40 cm high) animal originating in underground caves on the planet Palpis. The planet was settled by the Amarrians long ago, and the Fedo has spread with Amarr vessels throughout the galaxy cluster ever since. The Fedo is an omnivorous, sponge-like creature. It has reddish skin and numerous small claw-like tentacles which it uses to move around and protect itself. A primitive being, the Fedo's method of eating and absorbing nutrition is slow and inefficient. This means that food stays for a long time in the Fedo’s body, and will most often have rotted or turned foul before the animal passes it out of its system. The Fedos eject fumes from their body which, for the reasons explained above, have a most horrible odor. The Fedos possess a fantastic sense of smell and so use these fumes to communicate with each other; they are however both blind and deaf, having no eyes or ears. The mouth is located on the underside of the beast, and the Fedo feeds by positioning itself over the food and lowering itself down on it. Fedos are an incredibly strong and resilient species. They can live in total vacuum for several hours before succumbing to the cold and lack of oxygen. Some Matari have used this fact to their advantage, employing Fedos on many of their ships for cleaning and garbage disposal. The Fedos are especially useful in that they can clean the ship on the outside as well as the inside; they can get to hard-to-reach areas on the ship and, most importantly, will exterminate many of the pesky bacteria commonly found on space ships. The Matari feed the Fedos with every scrap of waste produced on the ship, letting the beasts roam free around the vessel and even outside it. This saves money, but the downside is the foul stench produced by the Fedos, something which discourages most everybody from using them. There is a distinct difference between male and female Fedos. The female is slightly larger and has redder skin. It has a point-like tail or sting, approx. 10 cm long. The female Fedo can emit highly toxic fumes from a small opening at the end of the tail, which can cause intense skin irritation and discomfort for a human. For this reason, only male Fedos are used as ship cleaners. Most ships employing Fedos have a special nursery room where female Fedos are kept to replenish the on-board Fedo stock. This is necessary as the Fedo's life cycle is only a few weeks long. Mind Clash is a very popular sport throughout known space. It is as enthusiastically played in the royal court on Amarr Prime as in the gambling halls of the Caldari. The Clash Masters – the best players from around the worlds – are superstars, awed and adored equally among Gallentean yuppies and Minmatar punks. The game itself evolved from a simple computer game called Clash of Wits, where two participants played the roles of puppet masters, using various kinds of creatures and forces to attack each other until either one of them caved in. The game was fairly popular among teenagers and young adolescents, but not a phenomenon in any sense of the word. The extensive advances made in neural- and cyber-technology through the years then paved the way for a new version of the game, where the players didn’t control a computer-generated puppet master, but rather stepped into the role of puppet- master themselves. The illusions – fantastical creatures, monsters, phenomena – were still only bits and bytes in a computer, but due to the strength of the connection between the mind and the machine, this didn’t make them any less dangerous to a puppet master made of flesh and blood. Even if participants couldn’t be ripped to pieces in the literal sense, the potential psycho-trauma caused by the constant barrage on the brain could easily reduce a stout man to a whimpering wreck in mere moments. Actually, the illusory creatures and phenomena are only there for the show – doing nothing by themselves, they simply portray in visual terms what actually is going on behind the scenes in the minds of the participants. The actions and state of the illusion give ample indication of the actual events of the struggle to the spectators. These illusions are, in modern arenas, often projected as holograms above the participants. All the stars of the game have their own exclusive repertoire of personally trademarked illusions. This, coupled with flashy outfits and catchy nicknames, makes each of the major stars easily distinguishable to the fans. In addition to the illusions huge screens dot the arenas where duels are held, broadcasting images and information to the masses ogling the match. These consist mainly of things like facial close-ups of the sweating contestants, or detailed data- charts on the status of their mental and bodily state. The new version of the game was called Mind Clash. Since its release over a century ago the game has grown into a full-fledged sport, with billions of fans and billions in revenue generated. The inevitable development has been that Mind Clash is now one of the biggest entertainment forms around – with all the stardom, hangers-on, aspiration dreams, gambling and showmanship that goes with it. For many, the Worlds Championship is the major event of each calendar year. During that massive event, the sixteen best players from all around the star cluster gather to slug it out. Although rumors of fixed matches and rigged results have somewhat tainted the image of the event (and the sport as a whole), it remains a huge attraction for more or less everybody, and Mind Clash betting is one of the favorite pastimes of billions of people.

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