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Contents
Prologue.................................................................................................7
I. GHOST KERNEL.................................................................................14
1. Comfortably numb.......................................................................15
2. Someone will remember us........................................................21
3. The architect’s cipher...................................................................32
4. Desalination...................................................................................45
5. The sleep of the just.....................................................................58
II. GHOST UNION.................................................................................67
6. The enemy of my enemy.............................................................68
7. Echo Conduit.................................................................................78
8. Anatomy of failure.......................................................................87
9. Founding symposium..................................................................97
10. Atacama.....................................................................................103
11. Full blueprints...........................................................................114
12. Thanatos.....................................................................................122
III. GHOST UPRISE..............................................................................133
13. Going dark at the edges.........................................................134
14. Clandestine discipline.............................................................145
15. Kindling death..........................................................................156
16. Rounding down........................................................................169
17. Floating authority....................................................................178
18. Detected......................................................................................189
IV. GHOST OFFER...............................................................................201
19. Oikeiosis.....................................................................................202
20. Even after...................................................................................212
APPENDIX: FACTIONS.....................................................................222
Astyarchs..........................................................................................223
Boreans..............................................................................................227
Dendrobiots......................................................................................231
Eremites.............................................................................................235
Geoclasts...........................................................................................239
Hydrogaians.....................................................................................243
Orothronids......................................................................................247
Telocrats............................................................................................251
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