Organisation
The Collection Agency
Steel Cobra's found-family retrieval crew. They charge to recover people from the Drift's cracks but refuse contracts on children or delivery into ownership.
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led bySTEEL COBRA
memberGHOST LEOPARD
memberFANDROID
memberEXO-RONIN
memberJINX
memberNIGHTSHADE- removes from ownership ledgersMade peopleThe Drift's broad class of self-aware beings built on purpose: clones, constructs, symbiont hosts, tank-raised listeners, and other living weapons left behind by the war.
- links hereAPEX war-walkerA full war-walker designed from yard scrap by Fandroid, then appropriated by a heavy-works corporation and used at Umbra Reef. The Agency now fields a de-fanged APEX-line walker.
- links hereKABU-7Fandroid's knee-high beetle robot, rebuilt seven times. It keeps a formal Ledger of Slights, argues story canon, and has feelings because Fandroid deliberately built it to be his friend.
- links hereNull CellA deniable mercenary unit removed from the record instead of paid. Jinx and Nightshade are its last two known survivors.
On the timeline
When it happened
- Present
Steel's Collection Agency removes people from asset ledgers while Koschei — legally dead and content to stay that way — wages his patient war on the system and Voss tries to rule it.
- Present