=Legba= 
**Station Type:** [[Clusters|Cluster]]
**Allegiance:** [[Nine Lives]]
**Primary Languages:** French, Spanish
**Population:** Unknown
Commonly referred to as the “the Belt’s armpit,” Legba is a grimy cluster habitat fused together from tin can modules, disabled ship hulls, and other ramshackle pieces of detritus and spare parts, lashed on to a small mined-out asteroid on a highly elliptic orbit. While no one is certain how many morphs reside in Legba, it is assumed that millions of egos are held captive here in the clutches of the Nine Lives cartel.
Calling Legba a hive of scum and villainy is an insult to scum and villains. Space pirates, claim-jumpers, fork-nappers, and other individuals representing the low-life criminal mindset and dregs of transhumanity all converge here. Stragglers and miners who run low on supplies and who are willing to take the risk sometimes try to resupply at Legba, only to get trapped in its clutches, never to be seen or heard from again. Lawless and violent, the only rule Legba has is that “you get to keep what you carry.” According to a common interpretation of this rule, if you are not sober, conscious, or alive enough, you don’t get to keep that ego you’re carrying, so be warned.
The Nine Lives crew, who have the dubious honor of being despised even by other crime syndicates, calls Legba its home. They trade primarily in egos and forks and are ruthless and uncaring as to how they acquire them. They will also sell and deploy them for any purpose that they ﬁnd proﬁtable or amusing. They are infamous for their infomorph virtual slave colonies, their callous experimentation with severe mind edits, memory rape, and ego rending and merging. Then there are their brutal pit ﬁghting rings, forcing imprisoned egos into whatever physical forms they can imagine and then throwing them into battle for entertainment.
Within Legba there are entire cargo bays ﬁlled with recovered cortical stacks, many of them never accessed. Millions of other egos are imprisoned in cold storage rigs or run in all manner of locked down virtualities. Scavengers sift through these mindscapes, scouring them for useful data to be sold on the open market or simply getting a voyeuristic thrill from other people’s thoughts and experiences. The corridors of the Legba hab are hellish places reeking of bodily ﬂuids, viscera, incense, and candles, dotted with shrines dedicated to the spirits where still-bloody cortical stacks are left as grisly offerings. Among Nine Lives members, stacks are often traded as a form of physical currency.
Outside of the Belt, most transhumans would like to ignore the fact that Legba even exists. If you’ve lost a loved one—especially if that loved one is a copy of yourself—then Legba may be your best bet for ﬁnding that ego that no one else has been able to locate. On the other hand, if you’re looking to punish an enemy for eternity, Legba might be just the place to send them.
===Sidebar: Ego Voodoo=== 
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**From:** <encrypted>
The undisputed head of Nine Lives, Roland Nazon, considers himself a bokor, a voodoo priest. He is reputed to have “distilled’ the essence of the loa—voodoo spirits—from the massive amounts of egos under his control. These loa allegedly possess Nazon and other Nine Lives members at his command. I’ve consulted with some people in the know about this, and it’s widely assumed that this spirit possession religious nonsense is just some sort of ego transfer or puppet socketry at work. It’s possible, however, that the Nine Lives crew has been dabbling with some experimental ego-merging or multi-ego tech, which could be problematic. What’s even more concerning, however, is what if this is symptomatic of some other, more dangerous consciousness, pulling the gang’s strings from behind the scenes?

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