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An influential OPA figure offers Fred reconciliation only on terms that would surrender a captured conspirator to the radicals.
Anderson Dawes, speaking from Pallas, sends Fred Johnson a carefully sympathetic message after Tycho's attack. He denies sanctioning the violence while calling its perpetrators patriots, and offers to restore Fred to the OPA's new center of power if Fred delivers the captive Sakai as a gesture of good faith.
The proposal makes Dawes an ambiguous intermediary between Fred and the ascendant radicals. His claimed loyalty is to the Belt rather than to a settled alliance, and he knows the people behind the attacks even though Fred does not; whether he can restrain them remains unknown.
A pale-skinned man with close-cut white hair, old acne scars, and wrinkles that make him look prematurely aged; he is seen in a recorded message from Pallas.
Dawes is a powerful OPA broker trying to shape the factional response to the radicals' rise.
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