Motif · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

The Open Intellect Pacifist Action Network

Carl's second sponsor from the fifth floor: an Intergalactic NFC — Not for Conquest, tax-free, a non-profit — that Mordecai has never heard of, that sponsors no one else, and that sends a yam in a silver box, then a custom head-throwing xistera attachment in an emergency platinum box that Mordecai guesses was the most expensive in the game's history. Its president of Outreach Operations is Dr. P. Hu.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 11 — Tipid; fifty thousand
• Chapter 28 — Toyotomi; Agatha is looking for Carl
• Chapter 55 — Head Banger; Milk
• Chapter 57 — Thirty-two boxes; the last prisoner
• Chapter 69 — Interlude — Several days earlier; Interlude — Rosetta; Zarogoths
• Epilogue — Epilogue: Don't Come in Last

Progression

Dr Porthus Hu's network, smaller than the Crawler Project, branded terrorist, scattered, and now inside the game where nothing can be done to it (ch. 11); the sponsor of Theia through an agent named Rectrix (ch. 49, ch. 57); Rosetta's mission for it: two ships bought with a dead king's money (ch. 69). In the epilogue it is the Open Intellect Action Network, with breaching suits and lasers (epilogue).