Motif · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

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

• Prologue — Prologue
• Chapter 9 — Juice Box's war room
• Chapter 18 — The minor quorum; code red
• Chapter 20 — Christmas Morning; the Ramp-Up
• Chapter 29 — The Bamboozle
• Chapter 30 — Comrades
• Chapter 31 — Drop troopers; Tripper
• Chapter 36 — Orren's zero zone
• Chapter 43 — Odette hosts; 'It's coming'
• Chapter 56 — Justice Light; the Nest
• Chapter 81 — Executive Order 11905

Progression

The adjutant Drick is a Valtay worm, a gondii (ch. 9, ch. 56). Worms turn up in the Posse's own mages, Goldblum among them, and Tipid, his arm half gone, explains that the Valtay charter requires willing hosts but that outlaw gondii mercenaries exist (ch. 29, ch. 30). The AI apologises for allowing 'this Spelljammer/Warhammer bullshit' into its dungeon (ch. 31); Orren lays out what the Valtay know about the illegal non-Valtay implant in Carl's head (ch. 36); Cascadia's home system hired the Valtay against the Bloom, and a derelict warship goes into Borant's habitat ring (ch. 43); the showrunners refuse a self-destruct (ch. 81).