With Apollo as my witness, I swear that acting Chief Director Dominic Seneschal wore, as he marched down the aisle, a full Mitsubishi suit, black with a motif of summer maple leaves in white and red, and not a hint of his usual French finery. The bloated crate of papers which passed for the Mitsubishi reform draft addressed such tangled minutiae of their corporate bylaws that a full day with Censor Su-Hyeon and Kohaku Mardi has not helped me unravel their import. Each Member, or ‘shareholder’ as Mitsubishi documents term them, will, as before, receive one ‘share’ (vote) for existing and another for each unit of property, small properties providing a single vote and vast estates vast power. As before, minor shareholders will commit their votes to Managers (who must receive minimum of 1,000 votes to qualify), who in turn commit theirs to Electors (minimum 100,000 votes), who commit theirs to Executives (10,000,000 votes). Among these last, the nine who command the most votes (over a billion each) become Executive Directors, with the Chief Director’s throne (desk) passing to that supreme powerbroker who manages the most. What are the changes, then, if all this stays the same? The draft affects, among other things, the ratio of property to votes, the relative vote-value of different kinds of property, and the standardized exams which qualify Mitsubishi members for the Manager, Elector, and Executive tracks. Such changes to the minutest texture of the Hive might, like a field transformed from clay to black earth, yield wondrous new crops, or it might produce the same thorned weeds that birthed the Canner Device. I do not know how to predict which, nor does a nervous Romanova.