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2) Jake McBryde, and his girlfriend, cut off from the stability of the society they have known, forced to face the real brutality of the culture they have lived in, and with the seeds of doubt planted by McBryde's brother, are at large in the galaxy, with a busted transit plan. They are most probably going to arrive as unwitting but increasingly restive, even desperately unwilling supercargo on a slaver making a route call at...Parmley Station. Even if the ship is not taken down during the port call (due to lack of slaves in evidence), the pair will likely jump ship there. And Jake McBryde, plus his new girlfriend, unlike Herlander Simoes, DOES know most of the layers that will blown the MAlign's future operations wide open. I don't think he knows the location of Darius, and he may not know the LOCATION of the Twins or of Felix, and I don't think he knows all about the Renaissance Factor, especially not the member states, but I think they know, between them, the NATURE of the Twins system, amd the fact that there IS a wormhole route to a secret base system, and that Verdant Vista was wrapped up in the MAlign's deeper plans. That will be enough to set the GA looking in the right ways, in the right directions.
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Minor correction.
Zachariah McBryde is on the loose as of Cauldron of Ghosts. Jack McBryde was vaporized in Torch of Freedom.