Editing Palanquin (section)

==Goals==
Several members of Palanquin are [[Case 53]]s. Some of them have put their wages toward investigating their origins.<ref name="15.x">[[Interlude 5]]</ref>

Though explicitly mercenary, the crew does have limits on who they work for and what they do, willing to do "anything short of murder".<ref name="5.1e1">Tattletale nodded, "Faultline's crew does anything short of murder. You can say her personality sucks, you can say her ''powers'' suck, but I'll admit she's very good at finding hidden strengths in the people that work for her. See those two guys? When it came to powers, they got a bad roll of the dice. Became freaks that couldn't hope to pass in normal society, wound up homeless or living in the sewers. There's a story behind it, but they became a team, she made them effective, and they've only messed up one or two jobs so far."<br><br>"Gotcha," I said, "Impressive."<br><br>"Keep in mind, though, we haven't screwed up any. We're 100%."<br><br>"They've done something like three times as many jobs as us," Regent pointed out. - [[Hive 5.1]]</ref> They make a point of never fighting without pay.<ref name="5.1e2">"Just saying my group won't be getting directly involved in this without a reason," Faultline spoke, "We won't be going after the ABB unless they get in my way or someone pays my rates. It's the only workable policy when you're a cape for hire. And just so we're clear, if it's the ABB paying, my team's going to be on the other side of things." - [[Hive 5.1]]</ref>