Editing Gary Nieves (section)

===Post-[[Mathers Compound Assault|Fallen fall]]===
After withdrawing from the mayoral race, he concentrated on staffing the Earth Bet portal with his followers, totaling twenty to thirty percent of the workforce there. He still intended to try recolonizing Earth Bet.<ref> Twenty to thirty percent of the people at this station were people he’d recruited or people who worked alongside him.  Ostensibly, they were largely in support of recolonizing Earth B. - [[Interlude 7.y II|Interlude; Gary]]</ref>

Nieves was present when the Gimel-Bet portal was attacked by unknown militants, which killed many of the workers and refugees.<ref>Things were still creeping forward when a sharp sound cracked through the air.  His first instinct was to think it was something like the truck jackknifing.  A mechanical failure, a backfire-<br/><br/>He heard the screams.  The parahuman that had been perched atop a truck hit the ground, luminescent purple blood splattering to the ground around him. - [[Interlude 7.y II|Interlude; Gary]]</ref>. After [[Dragon]] and [[Colin Wallis|Defiant]] thwarted the attack, he criticized both them and the [[The Shepherds|Shepherds]] for their handling of the situation.<ref>“It’s not where we are overall, but it’s where we were that moment.  You want to open a dialogue, but- you weren’t here.  The Shepherds weren’t here.  In my limited interactions with parahumans, I keep on noticing- over and over again, even the good ones, we’ll hear you say that you forget our names, or we all sort of ‘blend into each other’.  Again and again.  There’s a disconnect, where we don’t even rate.” - [[Interlude 7.y II|Interlude; Gary]]</ref>

A few days after the attack, Nieves was approached by Erwin Daeyoung, who offered him evidence that his fellow mayoral candidates Jeanne Wynn and Sierra Kiley were both associates of [[Tattletale]].<ref>Gary looked. It was Sierra Kiley, one of the other past contenders for the mayorship. She too had stepped down. In the picture, she stood talking with the leader of the Undersiders and Citrine- Jeanne Wynn.<br/><br/>Gary nodded. “The game was rigged.” - [[Interlude 7.y II|Interlude; Gary]]</ref> Daeyoung attempted to recruit him on behalf of an unknown faction, proposing that [[Gimel.US]] should become a client state rather than being ruled by parahuman criminals.<ref>“Think, Gary. What do these other Earths want? Why do they threaten war and pick at our weaknesses with increasing viciousness? They want the territory. A world of resources, and a network of portals.”<br/><br/>“And?”<br/><br/>“We give it to them. We promise leadership without parahumans in charge, stacking the deck. We turn to an established government we’re on friendly terms with and we invite them in. We become a vassal state.”<br/><br/>“Who are you thinking of?” Gary asked.<br/><br/>“Nobody. That would be a decision for you to make without my input. If I told you one or the other, you would think I’m working on their behalf. There are options. It’s an idea that takes some getting used to, but if you’re thinking you’d like to go home… perhaps a middle-ground solution would be to open communications and borders with a world that has hints of our old amenities and culture.” - [[Interlude 7.y II|Interlude; Gary]]</ref> The result of this recruitment attempt remains to be seen.