"So, I hear you had some problems with Shadowland being compromised in Seattle," Chase said. The Nexus distributed a great deal of its publicly disseminable information through locally controlled, mobile computer bulletin board systems. Called Shadowland, the system could only be accessed by those who knew its daily electronic location. Via the board, fed from Denver, one could download chips full of data, scuttlebutt, and conversation that regularly made the governments and corporations howl, hence the system's mobile nature. Chase had heard from local friends that the Seattle Shadowland system had apparently been infiltrated by corporate agents who'd erased some volatile data, tossed a rather nasty virus back toward Denver, and then killed the maintainers of the system.