Jack of Harts

The day Louis Mattioli’s old firm saw its final day in bankruptcy court was a media circus in every way. It was the most famous bankruptcy case in Alpha Centauri history, and everybody knew Louis was coming to buy. A few brave souls showed up to bid against him, and in many cases he let them have what they wanted for a song. The old partners had started up numerous side hustles that Louis had no interest in. If someone else wanted to try their hand at it, he was happy to let them have their way. But even the most hardy souls declined to put up more than token resistance to Louis when it came time to secure the downtown office building he had built from the ground up over a century before. No one wanted to be painted as the bad guy that took that waterfront view from a genuine Alpha Centauri folk hero.