It was for information that Chase was now headed toward Colorado Springs. Here at the northern edge of the Pueblo-controlled sector was the most vital source of secret information in North America. It hadn't been created there, but it could be located from there. Built quietly on abandoned government land in the days following the fracturing of the U.S., it grew in secret to become a massive web-work of hacked computers and wild technology that no sane person could ever hope to comprehend. It became a mecca of sorts for those who preferred the dynamic, volatile world of the computer Matrix to flesh and blood. Originally formed as a techno-utopia and named the Denver Technological Cooperative by its founders, it was now more commonly known as the Nexus. In the data haven there, and the ones like it scattered about other parts of the world, data could be bought, sold, or found for any price, in any form. All you had to do was ask. It was, however, unheard-of to ask in the flesh.