>>191 August 12, 2388: Captain America with members of Company E,
>>506th Jump Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, UEDF,
>>immediately following the Battle of Central Park in New York City.
>
>Is Charles Kallon in this picture?

Well, yes. I didn't see the need to mention that in the note, since it says so right in the story text a few lines further down.

>>1732 The IPO's regulations - and the Republic of Zeta Cygni's
>>civil laws - regarding the undead were originally formulated to
>>account for vampires, not spectral space marines, but hey, undeath is
>>undeath in the eyes of the law.
>
>I'm curious who the vampire(s) are that led to the need for such
>legislation, since I don't recall any having appeared in UF thusfar.

The undead make up a statistically insignificant but demographically undeniable segment of the population in almost all urbanized humanoid societies. Of that small but stable population, the vast majority are law-abiding citizens who only wish to go about their unlives in peace, and the laws of most enlightened societies reflect this. Vampyri are by far the most common type of sapient undead to be found in urban areas, mostly because they have the easiest time passing for normal people. You get a few high-function zombies, a spectre now and then, the odd mummy and very occasionally some much rarer, higher-order undead (revenants, now and then a lich), but for the most part it's vamps. One simply doesn't find many barrow-wights or ghasts who want to put up with the tsuris of trying to function in open society.

As for the IPO, several members of the force are undead. Private Church is classified as a spectre (a noncorporeal spirit who still looks like his living self, as opposed to a more indistinct form or one that has become monstrous or unearthly, like wraiths). Oddly enough, the JSA member known as The Spectre is in fact not a spectre under the classification system the IPO uses; she's a revenant. And of course there's Weapon Zero member Mina Murray, who works as a photojournalist (ironic, don't you think?) when not doing the secret bidding of the Inner Circle of the Hellfire Club, and who is not merely a vampire but a first-generation descendent of the royal line of Count Dracula himself.

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