This seemingly omnipresent organization is a leading supplier of exotics to the Mess, somehow keeping up with the task of satisfying its huge and uniquely jaded population of connoisseurs. Culturally, they resemble nothing so much as a multi-level marketing organization, rejecting hierarchy and rigid ideology in favor of decentralized structures, voluntary contracts, and patron-client relationships. There’s virtually no scarce resource in which they don’t traffic, but their specialty is grey-market heuristic software, designed for use in self-improvement personality mods. They have no particular known design for the Puzzlebox, as long as they get a piece of the action...