Relationship file
Seid's Connections
The people, places, systems, and open questions tied to Seid, projected from canonical relationship data.
The complete connection file
The people, places, systems, and open questions connected to Seid—and why each connection matters here.
Core tensions
His gift limbs run Good Fortune's dependency engine in reverse: they bill gratitude, not interest, and nobody walks off.
Upgrades rewire users until baseline feels disabling, removal risks catastrophe, and each version demands the next.
His paper ledger is the one economy Nexus cannot subpoena — the permanent record defeated by handwriting.
Nothing expires, so forgetting became a service — and forgiveness a question the archive keeps answering no.
Supporting connections
Refits the people the presses and corporate punishment took apart.
Automation ended most human work, but ownership hoards its abundance while machine sentience stays unresolved.
Runs a parallel obligation economy for people the Compact priced out.
When your employer is your country, quitting is emigration.
Warm light, real water, an unhurried fitting: warmth is the product.
The premium charged for the one service no machine can fake: being seen by another conscious being.
Sells the limbs; will tell you which grade starts keeping a log.
The parts of one body each hold a share of the act, and a maintenance contract decides whose share comes home.
Other connections
A warehouse manager who mislabels military shipments as recycling
The megacorporation provides real care while turning medicine, food, and reproduction into permanent dependency.
A procurement officer who owes Seid for a leg replacement his insurance wouldn't cover
The megacorporation that controls the Sprawl's physical infrastructure — steel, concrete, and the Orbital Elevator.
A quality control technician who "loses" rejected prototypes before they're destroyed
The megacorporation that controls 40% of the Sprawl's computational infrastructure.
Crow's gift economy began immediately after the Cascade; Seid's empire is its institutional successor
The 72-hour ORACLE catastrophe that killed 2.1 billion people and ended the old world.
Crow's — and later Seid's — operating territory; the ruins that supplied the first gifts
Limb dealer whose showrooms are the consumer face of physical enhancement
The augmentation ladder that turns employability into a licensed body.
Primary limb supplier — years of professional trust. Seid supplies, Tzu Yu installs, a good installation makes Seid's products look good
A licensed veterinarian who operates on humans, printing itemized invoices mid-surgery, never collecting the Dregs ones.
Limb dealer whose showroom is the consumer face of Rung 3 physical enhancement
The six-rung path where every upgrade is rational and the body at the top can no longer leave.
