On Cheyne III, Cormac has infiltrated the Separatists by becoming the lover of Angelina Pelter-sister of Arian Pelter.

Meanwhile back on Cheyne III, Pelter and Stanton have been repaired by black-market surgeon Sylac, and Arian has had a particularly hideous aug installed in his head.

They find many of the inhabitants on Huma wearing a new type of aug created by a company known as DragonCorp, and Pelter and his crew are all outfitted with them, except for Stanton.

The Pelter gang is soon acquired and tracked by a group of ECS agents ; Pelter and his crew take out the agents one-by-one, including their Golem Twenty agent — who is no match for the Golem Twenty-five Mr. Crane.

* Mr. Crane-a two and a half meter tall psychotic ( modified Golem Twenty-Five ) android controlled by Arian Pelter

* Veltz-Captain of the boat chartered by Arian Pelter to find the remains of his sister.

The book follows two main narrative threads: one which follows the exploits of Ian Cormac, a 007-like agent from ECS ( Earth Central Security ), and another thread which follows the story of Arian Pelter and his band of Separatists from Cheyne III.

Pelter becomes obsessed with finding and killing Cormac after recovering his sister's headless body.

Although Pelter intends to press on to Samarkand, he first makes port at Huma to pick up the necessary weaponry.

While the new aug feeds Pelter additional information about Cormac, he finds his new aug battling with his old one.

Communicating directly with Dragon through his new aug, Pelter is told that he will find Cormac on Viridian.

Pelter and his crew glide down to Viridian in a cameleonware dropship, evading the notice of the Viridian AI.

* The Lyric-A smuggling ship that transports Arian Pelter and his crew to the planets Huma and Viridian.

* John Stanton-a criminal underling of Pelter, who begins questioning his leadership.

recommend to the Congress from time to time authorization for construction and operation, or for participation in the construction and operation, of a demonstration plant for any process which he determines, on the basis of subsections ( A ) and ( B ) above, has great promise of accomplishing the purposes of this Act, such recommendation to be accompanied by a report on the size, location, and cost of the proposed plant and the engineering and economic details with respect thereto ; ;

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The location of the tissue determines its metabolic profile: " visceral fat " is located within the abdominal wall ( i. e., beneath the wall of abdominal muscle ) whereas " subcutaneous fat " is located beneath the skin ( and includes fat that is located in the abdominal area beneath the skin but above the abdominal muscle wall ).

In statistics, a location family is a class of probability distributions that is parametrized by a scalar-or vector-valued parameter μ, which determines the " location " or shift of the distribution.

In other words, when the function is graphed, the location parameter determines where the origin will be located.

Similarly to curved mirrors, thin lenses follow a simple equation that determines the location of the images given a particular focal length () and object distance ():

Each manufacturer determines the weight rating for the pole and the location of the maximum handhold band.

The user determines the location of the decimal point in the result, based on mental estimation.

In Beavers v. Henkel,, the Supreme Court ruled that the place where the offense is charged to have occurred determines a trial's location.

The amount, location, and timing of water reaching a drainage channel from natural precipitation and controlled or uncontrolled reservoir releases determines the flow at downstream locations.

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Quantum decoherence gives the appearance of wave function collapse ( the reduction of the physical possibilities into a single possibility as seen by an observer ) and justifies the framework and intuition of classical physics as an acceptable approximation: decoherence is the mechanism by which the classical limit emerges out of a quantum starting point and it determines the location of the quantum-classical boundary.

The location of the Rhodopes in the southeastern part of the Balkan Peninsula determines the climate in the region to a great extent.

The emitter acts as the source of the particles, and its location in 3D space determines where they are generated and whence they proceed.

The gravitational effect, or settling velocity determines the location of deposition for finer sediments, whereas a grain's internal angle of friction determines the deposition of larger grains on a shore profile.

The location where the foul is originally committed determines whether the penalty is awarded.

It is the combination of the time zone and daylight saving rules, along with the timekeeping services, which determines the legal civil time for any U. S. location at any moment.

* 1848: Richard Strachey determines the height and location of Kamet, as well as the neighboring peaks Abi Gamin, Mukut Parbat, and Mana.

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In each case, the system determines the intended command based on the controls showing on the screen at the time and the location of the touch.

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Similarly to curved mirrors, thin lenses follow a simple equation that determines the location of the images given a particular focal length () and object distance ():

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The United States Government shall have the right to terminate the financing of further sales under this Agreement of any commodity if it determines at any time after June 30, 1961, that such action is necessitated by the existence of an international emergency.

It seems to follow that by and large an antagonism exists between the paleo- and the neocortex as far as emotional reactivity is concerned, and that the balance between the two systems determines the emotional responsiveness of the organism.

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An object is uniquely identified by its name and has a set of attributes — the characteristics and information that the object represents — defined by a schema, which also determines the kinds of objects that can be stored in Active Directory.

Thus, it determines substancehood empirically by the togetherness of properties rather than by a bare particular or by any other non-empirical underlying strata.

General relativity describes spacetime by a metric, which determines the distances that separate nearby points.

A bowler determines the bias direction of the bowl in his hand by a dimple or symbol on one side.

Alterations in the quantity of atmospheric greenhouse gases determines the amount of solar energy retained by the planet, leading to global warming or global cooling.

The true and final aim of thought coercion is to induce a change in the victim ’ s objective function itself, i. e. the basic set of values and rules by which the victim determines his or her own choice among the alternatives of any feasible set.

The ratio is called the spreading factor or processing gain and determines to a certain extent the upper limit of the total number of users supported simultaneously by a base station.

However, because fiat money is backed by government guarantee of a certain amount of goods and services, where the value of this is in turn determined by free market currency exchange rates, similar to the case for the international market exchange values which determines the value of metals which back commodity money, in practice there is very little economic difference between the two types of money ( types of currencies ).

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As stated in the U. S. Code, the Commandant shall preside over the Headquarters, Marine Corps, transmit the plans and recommendations of the Headquarters, Marine Corps, to the Secretary and advise the Secretary with regard to such plans and recommendations, after approval of the plans or recommendations of the Headquarters, Marine Corps, by the Secretary, act as the agent of the Secretary in carrying them into effect, exercise supervision, consistent with the authority assigned to commanders of unified or specified combatant commands under chapter 6 of this title, over such of the members and organizations of the Marine Corps and the Navy as the Secretary determines, perform the duties prescribed for him by section 171 of this title and other provisions of law and perform such other military duties, not otherwise assigned by law, as are assigned to him by the President, the Secretary of Defense, or the Secretary of the Navy.