Relationship file
Luma's Connections
The people, places, systems, and open questions tied to Luma, projected from canonical relationship data.
The complete connection file
The people, places, systems, and open questions connected to Luma—and why each connection matters here.
Supporting connections
A barter economy the Permanent Record never wrote down.
Nothing expires, so forgetting became a service — and forgiveness a question the archive keeps answering no.
Perfect recall — the opposite of a memory she'd need to borrow.
Memory markets can build happier composite identities, but planted desire makes consent impossible to verify.
In a proofless world her recall still matches the archive.
Perfect evidence forgeries and crimes without defendants force justice systems to assign blame without reliable truth.
Her terminals are the Slop Cannon's dead ad-screens, repurposed.
Unlimited generation floods every channel, then becomes the belonging people seek where no curator can screen it.
Salvage market for the people who stepped off the upgrade treadmill.
Upgrades rewire users until baseline feels disabling, removal risks catastrophe, and each version demands the next.
Other connections
The Graveyard trades in pre-Cascade equipment that predates licensing — Luma's market is an anachronism the Bureau can't quite classify
The Nexus licensing regime that sells cognitive capacity as a benefit and revokes it as policy.
El Money offered her a G Nook franchise once — she declined because the Graveyard isn't a franchise, it's a shrine with a business model
G Nook's quiet broker gives the Dregs untracked refuge, then binds it with favors he never forgets.
Fen catalogued the underground ad node Luma sits on top of — they share a reverence for what the old systems reveal about humanity
Good Fortune's transaction tracking doesn't reach the Graveyard's barter economy — Luma prefers it that way
The megacorporation that finances the Sprawl's consumer debt behind red envelopes and lucky numbers.
Nexus wants the prediction engine buried beneath the Graveyard — Luma has been declining their offers for years
The megacorporation that controls 40% of the Sprawl's computational infrastructure.
Built the Ad Graveyard market by converting dead advertising screens into trading terminals
No Mercy Editor can help someone who has no self-forgiveness gap to soften; her problem runs exactly opposite to the gap the guild was built to close
A licensed guild softens behavioral reconstructions without changing the record, then sells that mercy by class.
Runs the primary departure provisioning operation for the Neon Rail
An abandoned rail network moves fugitives and contraband past checkpoints, but its blackouts punish augmented travelers.
Every Rail Runner knows Luma — she's the first and last face of the supply chain
Smugglers who read absence on the Neon Rail's analog boards where no chip's signal reaches.
Her reconstruction showed zero gap — she remembered thirteen years of optimization work at identical resolution to the system archive; the Verified Recall's designers called her anomalous
Certifies a subject's behavioral reconstruction more accurate — and legally primary — than their own testimony.
Lives in Wholesome's shadow, selling their surplus rations back to people Wholesome abandoned — Wholesome allows it because the math works
