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The office was on a mostly residential side street. It did not look professional, and for a moment he doubted he was in the right place.

Metropolitan investments in agromineral extraction (coal, rubber, tea, sugar cane, tin, phosphates, iron ore, and so forth) assumed the form of large-scale estates where considerable pools of low-cost wage-labour were a necessary component of expanded output.

Ivan: 'Yes, sorry. I am Ivan. You look strange. You are from Jonestown?' / Indra: 'My name is Indra; I did come through there. I know I look strange; nanotech did this to me.'