Knights And Merchants Online

[Hermila Farquhar]

Plaintiffsattempted to expand ECPA to include airlines that operate an online passenger reservation system, but the courts rejected this argument and held that ECPA does not apply to online merchants and service providers, such as airlines, that offer their traditional products and services online through a Web site. Rather, the courts determined that online merchants are simply consumers of electronic communication services.

Overall, the decisions have provided enormous relief to the airlines, but also serve as an important wake-up call on the potential liability exposure for unauthorized disclosure of personal identity information to third parties. This is particularly true in light of the recent wave of state legislation addressing identity theft and requiring notification of inadvertent and unauthorized disclosure of personal information.9 While there may be an argument that these state statutes do not apply to airlines because of DOT preemption in this field, the following procedures and policies reflect good business practices for all companies that regularly collect, handle and store computerized customer data.

10 In addition to state legislation, federal identity theft prevention and consumer notification bills are currently pending in both the House and the Senate and any new federal law may preempt all, or inconsistent, state law in this area. See, e.g., Specter-Leahy Personal Data Privacy and Security Act of 2005 (S.1789).

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Integrity Knights (整合騎士 seigō kishi), designated on the system level as Integrator (インテグレータ integurēta), are dragon knights, the commanding generals of the Axiom Church and the personal guard of its pontifex Quinella. They are former dissidents, rogues, and the crema-de-la-crema fighters of the Human Empire who had been robbed of their memories and converted into unconditional servitude. Originally tasked to shield Quinella from Cardinal, the tyrannic teocracy and the status quo of the empire, their goals started to change along with the situation.

The first Integrity Knights were the Underworlders whose hidden Transgression Quotient parameter was high. That meant a potential for disobedience, overcoming the Taboo Index restriction, and rebellion against Quinella's countrywide stasis effort. They were caught, but Quinella could not simpy dispose of them since her parents forbade her to murder. So, she captured them and began experimentations on their Fluctlights, exploring its makings and looking for ways to manipulate it. Their memories suffered in the experiments, and they went into a stasis where their maximum Life never decreased and they did not do anything but keep breathing.

After Cardinal had split off into her own new body and become a threat, Quinella found a new use for her traumatized captives, making them her first bodyguards. Furthermore, she had established the Four Empires Unity Tournament, and those who won it were henceforth invited to the Central Cathedral to undergo Quinella's Synthesis Ritual and become yet another Integrity Knight. Their families were sent rich rewards and granted higher noble ranks, prompting all the haughty nobles and merchants to get their children to learn swordplay.

The Integrity Knights' memories are superceded by the notion that the Administrator summoned them from the Celestial World, so they have no ties to this one. The other Knights who had brought the new dissident into their ranks also necessarily have their memories altered before the new Knight joins them.

Since the apocalyptic phase of Project Alicization 1/4 started, twelve to thirteen Knights defend Quinella in the Cathedral, while eight of them guard the four passages against the Dark Territory attacks, Fizel and Linel study law and the Sacred Arts in the Cathedral, and others keep order in the four empires.

The Knights also travel to apprehend the new criminals to Synthesize and bring them to the Central Cathedral. They are never sent to the regions they hailed from initially, since someone might recognize them there and, on an off-chance, convince they are not celestial beings.

High-ranking Integrity Knights wear armor and use Divine Objects-class weapons from the Cathedral Armory stock. Their Object Control and System Control Authority stats are only second to Quinella's. All Knights do not age, excel at speed-chanting, and have advanced Sacred Arts rituals handy. They use dragons to move around and during air battles.

The Integrity Knights go through a Synthesis that differs from the original "guinea pigs" in that they get a Piety Module (敬神モジュール paieti mojūru) installed in their Fluctlights. The module has a visual shape of a purple prism 10 cm (3 in) long and is embedded into the victim's forehead.

While the victim's memories need to get suppressed security wise, memories are also what governs their applied skills that make the victim useful to Quinella. As such, only the personally attaching memories are obstructed by the Piety Module, which replaces them with false memories, at the same time enforcing unquestioning deference to the Axiom Churth.

Insistently shaking the personal loving memories awake actually overrides and pushes out the Module, causing the prism to fall out. However, the memory fragment replaced by the Module has to return to the remissive person; otherwise, their flow will be broken, and for some, may cause damage to the remaining memories.

Name Weapon Reference

Edith Synthesis Ten Dark Slash Sword In an alternate Alicization timeline, Edith is a good friend of Alice and among the top-ranking Integrity Knights.

Kirito Synthesis Thirty-three Night Sky Sword An alternate timeline version of Kirito and Eugeo are able to earn the right to become Integrity Knights whilst respecting the Taboo Index. As of Material Edition 28, due to not yet attempting the Synthesis Ritual, the duo are still considered trainees.

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