The Ledger

defense contracts, stabilin logistics, “research partnerships” that definitely aren’t weapons testing, the kind of company that smiles on every government report, profits steady, silence mandatory.

okay so technically we’re betting on the city not imploding again, the last time yields went up, the metro stopped halfway through construction, but hey, it’s backed by “authority,” whatever that means this semester.

ISSC-registered, biggest Kamuy insurance company in the hemisphere, if your arm explodes mid-awakening, they’ll probably cover it, what else do you need? dividends? a hug?

publicly it’s like the bank, everyone’s savings, pensions, tuition accounts, all sitting there like good little citizens, privately? the ownership chart looks like a spider web had a panic attack—offshore shells, Peregrine fingerprints, maybe even a Granville somewhere in the family tree, stock hasn’t moved in forty years. too central to fail, too quiet to question. feels... cursed in a very stable way.