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"Bound to a barren rock and death expected; But heaven has still such Innocence protected. Beauty needs fear no Monsters."
George Chapman, Andromeda Liberata, line 143, 1614 [Celebration of Frances Howard's escape from an impotent husband.]

Kakegurui [Police] — Every Breath You Take
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGyYQ5UFt_k

"Peachum:— The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits."
John Gay, The Beggar's Opera, Act I, Scene 10, 1728 [The whole scheme and intention of all marriage articles.]

Jade is otherwise impervious though ambush removed shields. Isolation shall make the Archon idiotic.

SABATON — The Art Of War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYoK1N90KDk

"A donkey had turned aside from the main road and was heading for a cliff. The driver shouted at him,
'Where are you going, you wretched beast?' He grabbed hold of the donkey's tail and tried to drag him
back from the cliff, but the donkey did not stop and instead kept going forward. So the man pushed the
donkey even harder than he had pulled him back and said, 'Go ahead then! You can take the worthless
victor's crown in this damned contest.' The fable criticizes people who are destroyed by their own stupidity."
Aesop, Fables, The Driver and the Donkey on the Cliff, Gibbs 486; Chambry 277; Perry 186.

Jaal & Liam hardware links channel asari, salarian & turian AI. Avitus Rix should reach out to Alec Ryder.

"On the one hand, the entrants could not be completely sure about the game being played. For example,
it might be that the established firm could actually be involved in some bigger game of which the one
being studied here is only a part and that the firm's equilibrium strategy in this larger game calls for it
to prey in these markets. …. The credible threat of predation will deter all but the toughest entrants."
Paul Milgrom & John Roberts, Predation, Reputation and Entry Deterrence, Journal of Economic Theory,
Vol. 27, No. 2 August 1982, p. 303 [allowing that the firm is not behaving as a fully rational game theorist.]

The Archon misleads quarian Ark: AI without hesitation engages bruising duel against foredoomed SAM.