Wait a tick here—there might be another option. I had one resource that might be able to tell me something useful. This resource seemed to have an almost encyclopedic memory for facts, factoids, and scurrilous rumors about corps the world over, and key players within them. Considering that he'd been involved with Yamatetsu and Barnard himself—albeit indirectly, through the intermediary of one Dirk Montgomery—he might be able to shed some interesting light on the subject, on what I was getting myself into.