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Stillwater— Violence broker and pre-conflict settlement specialist for the lower residential tiers and the Outer Industrial Belt fringe. Stillwater's function is not mediation after conflict but the interception of conflict before the first body. They specialize in the period — sometimes hours, sometimes days — when violence has been decided but not yet executed, and they insert themselves into that gap.
Roughly three decades in the lower tiers. In that time, the residential areas where Stillwater operates have a statistically anomalous rate of conflict resol…