Sterling-Nakamura publicly operates MERIDIAN for financial prediction. What they don't advertise is SABLE, their intelligence-gathering supermind that coordinates espionage operations against every other corponation in GLMZ. SABLE runs agents — both human and synthetic — in competitor organizations. It manufactures cover stories, plants evidence, and coordinates extraction operations with a subtlety that has kept it undetected by most rival security systems. ORACLE has detected traces of SABLE's operations but cannot identify the source. This is the closest thing to a chess match between superminds currently occurring in GLMZ.