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Also, as long as I'm here, and since I'm your newly self-appointed flavor assistant: The people on Windfall are Andromeda, Silhouette, and Nasir! They're coming for you, Apex!

Hello friends! Great show as ever! As to the nature of Director Haas and her beloved son... If you take a close look at Director Haas' Pet Project, the picture to her left (our right), when you zoom in to it, is pretty much labeled Thomas Haas. When you combine that with Thomas' own fiction in the Creation and Control box, there's really no doubt that he's a bioroid. But the glasses are a cute touch.

Hello, guys! As the saying goes, long time listener, first time poster. At least hereabouts in my meta, the Breaker Bay ice are being called "founder" ices, because each one is named after a founder of their given (even if imaginary) field -- AI, genetic research, data storage, and presumably macro-nanotech. It's at least a bit more mnenomic than "local" ice or whatever you guys were trying. Also, buckyballs totally exist, as in you can actually make them today. They're also found naturally in soot. They're named after Buckminster Fuller, and the molecule is more properly called buckminsterfullerene, because the things resemble a (very tiny) geodesic dome, which Fuller was fond of. Given the reference of buckyweave in Wayland cards, my guess would be that Meru Mati became famous for finding a way to weave chains of buckyballs into that immense wall -- basically, the first use of nanotech engineering on a vast macro scale.