Editing Barcode (section)

==''Modus operandi''==
Barcode was a mercenary team, with money as their only goal.<ref name="10.11 1" /> They operated as hit men.<ref name="9.6 2">“Hit men?” I asked.<br><br>“Is there a term for people worse than hit men?”<br><br>“How does that work?  Hit men are generally pretty bad, they’re professional, they’re about as criminal as you get.  How do you get more extreme than that?”<br><br>“They don’t kill,” Byron said.<br><br>I set my jaw.  Too many complicated thoughts were stirred up by that line of thinking.  My first, almost hopeful thought was that he meant they were worse as in less-effective.  The summary thoughts led me down a trail that made me think about my sister.<br><br>“An end worse than death,” Byron clarified, unhelpfully. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/09/08/gleaming-9-6/ Excerpt] from [[Gleaming 9.6]]</ref> They usually killed targets, but had [[parahuman]] contacts that included a [[striker]] who allowed them to inflict "an end worse than death" to targets. They were willing to sell the body parts that this striker could isolate.<ref name="9.6 3">“Barcode.  Most of the time they deal in death.  But they have contacts, the sort of people who might be out in one of Marquis’ cabins in the middle of nowhere, not wanting to be bothered.  I don’t know for sure where those contacts are, though.”<br><br>“And?”<br><br>“And one of those is a striker.  A dealer in human parts.  They take people apart with physical blows as if they’re dolls.  Takes an arm and a leg, literally, takes kidneys, hearts, genitals, whatever people are willing or desperate to buy.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/09/08/gleaming-9-6/ Excerpt] from [[Gleaming 9.6]]</ref>

They were highly professional, enough to get into the circles of villains such as [[Lord of Loss]] and [[Marquis]], but operated clandestinely, setting up contingency plans.<ref name="10.11 1" /><ref name="9.6 1" /> They were nonetheless prone to getting impatient about their jobs.<ref name="9.6 1" />

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