Character · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

Quasar

A Null attorney in a hula-girl tie, hired after Carl says the magic words in Orren's office (he wants a lawyer), who sums up the job: 'I can't stop you from getting fucked. But I am the condom.' He calls a pending suit over private messages at fifty-fifty (it wins), secures an injunction against the hunters' outside help, licenses Sensation's Vengeance of the Daughter past the sixth floor, explains Zerzura and Remex the Grand's fall, and turns the Society for the Eradication of Cocker Spaniels into a non-profit that buys a Faction Wars spot. 'You're a taxpaying stockholder now.'

Segment appearances

• Chapter 1 — Porthus; Welcome to Faction Wars
• Chapter 33 — Parlay
• Chapter 36 — Orren's zero zone
• Epilogue — Epilogue: Don't Come in Last

Arc

'that parking lot above the planet has devolved into a mini warzone' (ch. 1). In a freezing zero zone with a Mongo tie: the Bar Association's thanks, there being 'just about 20,000 crawlers making it to the 10th floor', deals that are all shit but one, the tenth floor's name, and Donut's lawyer, who is Carl's wife (epilogue).