The team takes a shuttle up to a colony called Zion, founded by Black Rastafarians who came up as welders and refused to leave. Armitage has paid them for computer equipment and an underground space in which to operate. Riviera passes the time with drugs while the rest of the team prepares for their next mission. Armitage reveals that they will be infiltrating the Villa Straylight, built at one end of the cigar-shaped Freeside station. The Tessier-Ashpool family lives there, separated from the Las Vegas-like tourist and financial sectors of the station and only accessible via a zero-gravity passage and shuttle docks.

Case talks with Dixie, who has finally accepted that he is dead. He knows he should be upset even if he’s not and asks Case to erase his phantom existence at the end of the mission.

A Zionite named Maelcum sneaks into Case and Molly’s sleeping quarters to summon them to meet Zion’s Elders. These two old men reveal that they have been monitoring radio waves for religious signs and heard a powerful voice called Wintermute. Wintermute has promised to destroy the corrupt Babylon of Freeside via

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