Quasar

A Nullian advocate from the Franciscan Arm who represents Carl under Syndicate law, always as a projected image. Carl gets him on the Sixth Floor by demanding a lawyer, and he brokers the deals that give the Royal Court its bodyguards and the Zerzura spell. Later he is shut out, hunted on Princess Chandra's orders, and by the end of the Tenth Floor he is shaking and fleeing meetings.

1. Early on the Sixth Floor Carl demands a lawyer during a meeting with the liaison Orren and gets Quasar, who stops him from picking up the Gate of the Feral Gods while it is under administrative hold. source
2. Quasar produces an obscure rule at the bargaining table to lock in a Ninth Floor extension for Sensation Entertainment, giving the producers a reason to keep Carl alive. source
3. New rules force him to obtain a court order before he can message Carl at all, and he often goes silent behind an automated reply. source
4. A court injunction bars the hunters from communicating with anyone outside the dungeon, which Carl credits to Quasar. source
5. Quasar's deal gives the Royal Court four cretin bodyguards and two installed spells, one of them Zerzura. source

1. Harbinger turns up at one of Carl's interviews, and Quasar zaps in furious and uses the interview to smuggle Carl an update on Faction Wars. source
2. During the adjutant selection on Odette's show Quasar silently coaches Carl and pushes for the orc judge Victory. source
3. When Orren moves to seize a bin Carl looted from a Residual, Quasar cites precedent against the seizure and turns it into a trade. source

1. At the start of the Ninth Floor Quasar warns Carl that Sensation Entertainment has been bought by a subsidiary of the Dream and is demanding the third season he negotiated. source
2. Quasar is shut out when Orren pulls Carl into a zero zone to interrogate him about the implant, and Carl is refused counsel. source
3. At the end of Faction Wars Quasar handles the exit negotiations, records Carl's refusal and tells him that Donut has been assigned a separate attorney, Princess Chandra, who is now Carl's wife. source

1. His messages to Carl grow unreliable, and at least one warning is cut off mid-message. source
2. Chandra, seeing him as the biggest threat to her scheme, hires two contractors to kill him; they attack his brother's house, where his niece Tempest kills both, and he retains his friend Kiki. source
3. At their last meeting, visibly shaking, Quasar presents the single exit deal on offer, advises Carl not to trust it, and flees the meeting without saying why. source

Allied with

Carl, Orren, Princess Donut, Victory