“They have some kind of insider advisor or legal position in five Hives besides the Masons! Europe, the Cousins, Brill’s Institute, the Mitsubishi, and us too.”
No, this seems like a huge conflict of interest to me. But, I guess if J.E.D.D. Mason is a declared foreign advisor, it isn’t an issue? It also speaks to the antiquity of the geographical nation-state lens that I this world through.