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He offered me credits that smelled faintly of honest work. "You keeping that copy?" he asked.

"No," I said. "I keep the stories."

Hox pursed his lips. "Worth more."

The truth, when it came, arrived the way all truths do in the peripheral shipping lanes: in bits and only after someone had sold you a drink and a lie. A trader named Hox, who smelled of ozone and lost leads, said he had seen a batch of suits once, all stamped with the same sigil as the token the suit had shown me. "Used them in the Core Wars," Hox said. "They were made to keep psyches intact for long-duration repair ops. Problem was, they kept more than the job. They kept memories. After the regulators learned, they wiped the tags, dumped the proof, and distributed them in salvage runs. People couldn't be allowed to keep who they were." livesuit james s a coreyepub repack

"But people in regulation forget the human part," the suit's memory whispered. "They cut out the margins and decide what passes for life." He offered me credits that smelled faintly of honest work