Motif · Book 2, Carl's Doomsday Scenario
The Valtay Corporation
A name Carl finds in his inventory's history tab attached to a pulse pistol, a personal shield and an illegal communications relay that passed through his hands inside Agatha's shopping cart. Odette says they are a parasitic corporate government with a fleet parked outside the Borant system, and the next season will be theirs.
Segment appearances
Progression
Everywhere and unnamed as a threat: an Intellect Hunter race Carl suspects is theirs (ch. 2); Manasa, a Valtay 'worm head' whose career outlived her body (ch. 19); the bankruptcy debate on Danger Zone; a dreadnaught in Earth orbit that destroys a Skull Empire royal yacht (ch. 19). 'Their entertainment assets' bring in more than their technology. Agatha, whose cart held their items in book 1, is named twice on this floor (ch. 8, ch. 14) but never with them.