I look at Oliver and nod. He's right. We still lack the face of the thing, and that weighs as much as the name.
"The public name can be Safe Harbor. But the factory operation needs a separate commercial name. Something that doesn't hand over the whole guild at the start."
"Exactly, Oliver. If they tie the LDP to Safe Harbor from day one, they'll hunt us. Chase the formula, or try to take control of everything. We need a ghost name, the kind that, when someone goes digging, leaves them with no idea where or how to find the source."
"Vanguard Prime," Oliver suggests. "Simple. Clean. Easy to sell, boss."
Veric makes a face.
"Are you provoking me?"
"That's not the point. The LDP needs to look trustworthy before it looks revolutionary. A name that echoes the royalty of Azure Prime sounds trustworthy."
I nod.
"It works."
Rhayne looks at me.
"And the symbol?"
I hadn't thought it all the way through. But the image arrives too fast to ignore.
