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|main character    = [[Vienna Salvatori|Vienna]]
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|featuring        = [[Crevo Finn|Crevo]]
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Vienna forms an [[alliance]] with Malrick and they head to high ground to set up a base, sneaking up on the attacking [[Galaron Darvil]] on the way and causing him to accidentally swallow one of his own [[poison dart]]s. She tells Malrick how she broke into the [[Magisterial Palace]] on [[Kazbar]] and threatened a [[defence robot]] with mind-erasure to get it to take her to Crevo, who claimed that he did not know who she was and that he would have been too young thirty years ago to have attacked her parents. When he claimed to have proof of his innocence, she saved him from people attacking the palace so that she could kill him herself at a later date and they fled from the defence robots, whose [[loyalty circuit]]s had been reprogrammed, in a [[hover skimmer]]. She then performed a [[memory scan]] on Crevo, but he was shot and killed when the scan was only 85% complete.
Vienna forms an [[alliance]] with Malrick and they head to high ground to set up a base, sneaking up on the attacking [[Galaron Darvil]] on the way and causing him to accidentally swallow one of his own [[poison dart]]s. She tells Malrick how she broke into the [[Magisterial Palace]] on [[Kazbar]] and threatened a [[defence robot]] with mind-erasure to get it to take her to Crevo, who claimed that he did not know who she was and that he would have been too young thirty years ago to have attacked her parents. When he claimed to have proof of his innocence, she saved him from people attacking the palace so that she could kill him herself at a later date and they fled from the defence robots, whose [[loyalty circuit]]s had been reprogrammed, in a [[hover skimmer]]. She then performed a [[memory scan]] on Crevo, but he was shot and killed when the scan was only 85% complete.


Exploring a cave with Malrick in the hopes of finding [[food]], Vienna kills an attacking sabre-toothed creature with a giant [[icicle]] and they eat it. She continues her story and tells Melrick how Crevo's memory scan revealed that he was not on [[Mercator (Deathworld)|Mercator]] on the day that Vienna's father was killed and that she feigned a crash as she left Kazbar to deceive an attacking ship. When the other pilot entered her ship, she held him in a [[stasis field]] and removed his mask, finding that it was Melrick and that he believed that she had killed his father on Mercator. She deduces that he has been given an altered version of her own memory to trick him into killing her and shoots him dead when the stasis field is lowered. Melrick has no memory of this encounter and does not understand how he is alive.
Exploring a cave with Malrick in the hopes of finding [[food]], Vienna kills an attacking sabre-toothed creature with a giant [[icicle]] and they eat it. She continues her story and tells Malrick how Crevo's memory scan revealed that he was not on [[Mercator (Deathworld)|Mercator]] on the day that Vienna's father was killed and that she feigned a crash as she left Kazbar to deceive an attacking ship. When the other pilot entered her ship, she held him in a [[stasis field]] and removed his mask, finding that it was Malrick and that he believed that she had killed his father on Mercator. She deduces that he has been given an altered version of her own memory to trick him into killing her and shoots him dead when the stasis field is lowered. Malrick starts to remember this encounter and wins the Tournament when Darvil shoots Vienna with a poison dart and he uses the opportunity to throw Darvil from a cliff.


As they hide and plan on how to kill Darvil, Malrick informs Vienna that he remembers who is truly is. As Vienna approaches Darvil from the rear, a concealed Malrick gives away her location on purpose. Darvil shoots a poison dart at her, which hits. Malrick them grabs Darvil and pushes him off a cliff, causing him to be the winner. The adjudicators acknowledge that the only lifesign belongs to Malrick and send a craft to collect him.
Shazarel presents Malrick as the Tournament's winner before the Assassin Academy, after which Malrick speaks with him in private and confronts him with the fact that they are in a simulation whilst the missions were in the real world. The real Malrick was killed by Vienna aboard her spaceship and this [[avatar]] of him transforms into Vienna, who has been using his avatar all along. She explains that she scanned Malrick's mind posthumously and found that he had been implanted with the false memory whilst in a training immersion pod on Mercator, leading her to travel there and discover [[Death Incorporated]]'s operation of turning [[orphan]]s and unwanted children into assassins. Shazarel reveals that Vienna's memories of childhood trauma are fake and that she was sent to kill Crevo at the request of one of his business rivals, the [[Vernagulos Empire]]. The [[money]] that she has been sending to Miracle 3 for her mother has actually been going into Death Incorporated's accounts.
 
Back at the city, Canton Malrick is unveiled before a crowd as the winner of the Tournament of Death. He asks for a private word with Felman Shazarel. Back in private, Malrick informs Shazarel that he's aware that this world is not real. He recalls Vienna pointing out to him that the stars are not in any order, just placed at random. Malrick is convinced that the Mercator here and now is, in fact, the reality, and that all of the missions that were undertaken by himself were the real world. He also is aware that the real Shazarel is in a control room in the real world. Shazarel congratulates Malrick on working it out. But Malrick reveals his true identity. According the this fake Malrick, the real Malrick died aboard Vienna's ship two days prior. Malrick's avatar changes to that of Vienna, who reveals her true self.
 
Shazarel is shocked to find out that the real world immersion pod for Vienna is empty. Vienna explains that after killing Malrick, she decided to discover who had given him her own memories. Vienna's computer had scanned Malrick's dead mind and found that four weeks to his arrival on her ship, Malrick had been inside a training immersion pod when the fake memories had been implanted. The computer reveals that he had left Mercator in the star system [[Galvan 5]] for the planet Kazban. This revelation had caused Vienna to head for Mercator, where she found a organisation named [[Death Incorporated]].
 
Death Incorporated steals orphaned children, plugs them into immersion pods, tells them that they're in a high-tech ultracity and trains them to be assassins. Once fully trained, the assassin believes that they're leaving reality and entering a simulation, rather than the other way around. Upon finishing their mission, they return to the pods and enter what they believe to be reality. Vienna tells Shazarel that the only reason she pretended to be Malrick was to find out why her memories of her father's murder had been stolen from her. Sharazel find this to be incredibly amusing.
 
Shazarel explains that those memories aren't hers. They, too, were implanted into her memory during the simulation so that she would kill Crevo Finn, at the request of one of his commercial rivals, the [[Vernagulos Empire]]. Shazarel allows her to work out that she's one of "them", a stolen orphan. Demanding the knowledge of her real parents, Shazarel reveals that this particular memory was removed a long time ago. All of the money transferred to Miracle 3 is revealed to have gone into the accounts of Death Incorporated.


Shazarel demands to know who was controlling her avatar, to which she explains it was the artificial intelligence of her onboard computer. She also tells him that the computer's orders were to remind her of the [[Simulacrum]] and get her out. In the real world, Malrick's pod opens and Vienna gets out, welcomed by her computer. The computer scrambles their scanners as she makes her escape. Shazarel orders the activation of the assassins to aid in her capture. As she makes her way towards Shazarel's control room, she is stopped by the real Galaron Darvil.
Shazarel demands to know who was controlling her avatar, to which she explains it was the artificial intelligence of her onboard computer. She also tells him that the computer's orders were to remind her of the [[Simulacrum]] and get her out. In the real world, Malrick's pod opens and Vienna gets out, welcomed by her computer. The computer scrambles their scanners as she makes her escape. Shazarel orders the activation of the assassins to aid in her capture. As she makes her way towards Shazarel's control room, she is stopped by the real Galaron Darvil.
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