A tower in Neo-Edifex, twenty storeys up. As the crew saw it in Session 1: Compassionate Use.

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A diner twenty storeys up the side of a tower, all chrome and red-and-white checkerboard, with a cheeseburger sign revolving over the docking arm. Inside: knick-knacks, alien dancers on wall clocks swinging their hips to the tick, and nostalgia for an era on a world none of the crew had ever seen. The waitresses are androids in blue smocks who roll on a single wheel. They have chimkins — boiled, fried, battered, gumbo, chimkin and grits — and real-dairy milkshakes, at a price. Booth 5.

Agent Vosk met the crew here to pay for the farm and hire them for Hope’s Reach. Weeks later the crew was back for a celebratory meal when the news came on, and the police landed outside.

People here: Agent Vosk