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"The Devil You Know"

Developments

• Edward Purcell, in the body of Thomas Blanchard, is killed.
• Purcell destroyed Lili’s personal locator.

Backstory

Lili Marquette

• Lili was born 30 years ago in Ft. Hood, Texas, to Colonel Edward Purcell and Rachel (Marquette) Purcell and had one brother, Andy, two years her junior. She was baptized at St. Mark’s.
• Lili’s father, who bears a scare from a lawnmower accident, was emotionally distant and demanding, even requiring his children to perform midnight inspections. Edward Purcell was particularly hard on his son.
• Nine years ago, at the age of nineteen, Andy Purcell shot himself with his father’s Colt 45. His parents found him behind Edward’s desk after returning home from the base club.
• Lil believed her father had been a member of the Signal Corps and that he had recently died. However, Edward Purcell had actually worked for military intelligence since before Lili’s birth and had secretly participated in a Taelon experiment to transfer his mind and memories into a new body because his old one was dying.

The Taelons

• Technology
  • The Taelons, working with Doors International, developed an electro-magnetic pulse weapon capable of disrupting computer systems in informationa warfare.
  • The Taelons helped human scientists create a technique for transferring neural intelligence between bodies through the medium of artificial intelligence.

The Liberation

• Jonathan Doors has been funding the Liberation with money he is still pulling from Doors International.
• Liberation Headquarters is shielded from electronic surveillance.

Miscellaneous

• Anne Portnoy is still head of Doors International.