The portable credit token Rosetta used to move a few billion stolen credits out of reach.
Orren explains to the Syndicate prime minister that officials are trying to claw the money back, but Rosetta has already transferred it to a credit chit and then sent it off somewhere else. He confirms flatly that it is not on the chit anymore — she transferred it out.
The figure makes Carl's heart stutter when he overhears it: a few billion credits, lifted from King Rust through Colloid Bank. Because monetary transactions fell outside the Live-Feed Blackout, nothing in the system flagged or froze the transfer.
A small transferable token that can hold and pass on arbitrary sums of credits.
The instrument that made a multi-billion-credit theft irreversible.
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