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Digitization

 * 1) "You will find no one to help you here. Beth DuClare has been dissected and placed in cryonic storage ."
 * 2) It is a cold heart that does not have some regrets
 * 3) Why the rift between Beth and Nicolette?
 * 4) What is SCHUSE?
 * 5) " Intimidation through violence is the last resort of the weak"
 * 6) Very effective security org -- clearly MJ12
 * 7) Gentry keep wine in cellar to protect it from heat/sunlight
 * 8) Net traffic analysis?
 * 9) Petabytes
 * 10) Fiber optics
 * 11) giant routing station
 * 12) Telcom maps?
 * 13) Why does Beth have aug cans?
 * 14) CYPHERBLOCK
 * 15) Aquinas Protocols
 * 16) Tear-sheet: 20 codes -- use=burn
 * 17) Knights Templar killed for gold
 * 18) Invented modern banking
 * 19) 1307 gold moved to final resting place in cathedral
 * 20) "Everett will be a powerful ally, but you can be certain that he will have his own agenda ."

Analysis
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 * 1) Who has Beth DuClare and why does Icarus know this? Why is JC being told? What is the hope in placing her in cryonic storage? Dissected? Did she have augmentations of some kind? Data stored in her body through chips or some other method?
 * 2) Wise words from Beth in her...datacube?
 * 3) I'm not sure why Nicolette seems so distant from her deceased mother -- was there a major schism or did they just grow distant?
 * 4) Unknown. No mentions on web, single in game.
 * 5) Interesting quote by Page, who is using these very tactics to coerce global leaders and their constituents under his umbrella.
 * 6) Very effective, indeed.
 * 7) Been in practice for centuries. Gentry also keep their ECHELON III hubs hidden there too; who knew?
 * 8) This system is a great unknown in the game; could be a simple routing station for network traffic, could be ECHELON III, could be a piece of Aquinas, a central distribution or computing center for Daedalus...anything.
 * 9) Thousands of terabytes, for the uninformed. Huge volumes of data, equivalent to a thousand terabytes. Timescale (pB/sec, for instance) not referenced.
 * 10) Fiber optics, of course, can transmit huge volumes of data at exceptional speeds.
 * 11) Routing station coupled with surveillance; a system only matched by Aquinas.
 * 12) Mapping data destinations and travel; not uncommon today, but a huge ethics/surveillance issue, depending on the detail (could be as specific as zooming to individual IPs on Internet 3).
 * 13) Beth wasn't nano-augged. Did she smuggle these out of VL or somewhere?
 * 14) CYPHERBLOCK is the result of a decryption here.
 * 15) "Crude, but effective, much like my protege"
 * 16) 20 final contacts were to be had between Beth and Morgan; how many occurred before MJ12 nabbed her?
 * 17) Some semblance of the knights existed until some unknown date and were killed by the Majestic 12 for their gold reserves.
 * 18) See later pages
 * 19) Also see later pages
 * 20) Absolutely true; can he be trusted then? He did get the world into this mess...