One of the nice things about how the Consortium is set up is that it allows me to really take my time and develop the characters fully. This is because I can put in little bits of character development to such a large cast that you really get a feel for them and without really impacting the pacing of each story. This chapter is kind of the best example of the down side of things. Since I have only 30k words to tell a self-contained story. Where there simply is not enough available words to really pace out the plot of the story. And so we end up going from "What is it? Is there really a thing coming" to "oh, here it is," in the span of one chapter.

And yet this is also kind of the last time this happens in season 1. Mostly because Episode 4 is more of a filler episode that's setting up all the pieces for the rest of the season, then Episodes 5 through 9 become far more serial than episodic, especially Episodes 8 and 9. Instead, more and more elements of what's going on in these stories bleed over between episodes, to the extent that the events of each episode become more a checkpoint for that particular plot.

As for the particular chapter, the only real comment is that Anon most definitely supposed to be there. As the person in charge of station security, it most definitely would be in her jurisdiction to check out anything that is supposedly going to be threatening station security. She doesn't have to be there, she could delegate, but she has every right to be. Riu, on the other hand, really doesn't. Riu doesn't really have any business helping check the place out. That said, he could pull strings and no one, not even Anon could really tell him otherwise.

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