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Sundgren Combine director of the Rivas Corridor, based at Tornel Station. Cross's moral mirror — another beneficiary and builder of the expansion who gradually decided that preserving the system justified hiding its casualties. To avoid a formal incident report that the public seam-ledger would broadcast (forcing a shutdown), he moved drift-affected workers off the personnel rolls and into personnel-rated emergency transfer capsules falsely manifested as inert freight. Sympathetic, certain he protected the colonies, wrong. Written humane: he knows his workers by name and understands every dependent settlement, visibly wrecked by what his choices caused — without softening his culpability.