A field guide to the dynastic houses that were rich a century before the Integration arrived, and never once let it tell them who they were.
A 'Garch heir can walk into a negotiation carrying a middling designation and walk out holding everything that was in the room. The overlay never records how it happened. That gap, between what the system can see and what actually moved, is the whole of what the 'Garchs are.
The oligarchic houses were powerful long before an alien system switched on and started rating people. They have spent the hundred years since declining to reorganize themselves around it.…
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