Summary
Two years before the MilCorp incident. Csaba dissolves the public arm of PromNET — outsources known patents, lays off the front-of-house staff, leaves only a kernel of trusted personnel. The remaining company is invisible to MilCorp's analysts on paper but quietly accelerates the ARK shipyard and the cryo relocation network. Csaba writes in a private file: 'I think we have eighteen months before they come for her.' He has twenty-two.