Princess
It is rather late in the evening and the main building of the California State University is mostly deserted except for one small auditorium, where technitians are setting up huge twin monitors and a computer for the lector to work with. The room can house about 50 people and there are refreshments in the back: mainly pastries and fruit. A shiny coffee machine promises anyone daring enough a sleepless night. After a few minutes, the men switch on the machines and Bloomberg terminal interface appears on both displays.
Tonight is a seminar about the new capabilities the Bloomberg system itself, new ways of exporting data into Excel for processing and the API designed for incorporating their data retrieving software into your own applications. Pretty much everyone in Sacramento who has something to do with securities trading or risk-management has been invited. Of course, not everyone has time to come, but the turnover is expected to be impressive.
Anyone with an invitation can get into the University by showing an ID and then get a badge at the entrance to the room, signifying their name and company affiliation.
Michael is one of the first to arrive, as he has just finished teaching a small class on Medieval Russia. His badge says proudly "California State University". After walking in he winces at the sight of food and then takes a seat in the first row. Realizing that the lecture won't start for another 15 minutes, he takes out a laptop and occupies himself with some computations. For now, he seems completely focused on work.
The room starts to slowly fill with people. Most of them represent major banks.
-1 for Blush of Life, as this is not Elysium, Aspect of the Predator is on