Many people to thank again.
obsession_inc and
dafnap both added significant elements to this part, and I snagged a couple of verbatim bits from our chat transcripts. I forgot to thank
quigonejinn in the last chapter for chatting with me about legal issues surrounding the SI Board, so I'll thank her now. This chapter wouldn't be what it is without
besyd 's encouragement and beta skills, and
oddmonster's willingness to take an axe to the draft and help carve it down and rearrange it into more of a race car than it was before. I wouldn't be staring down the end of the story if it wasn't for you all.