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Ultimate Sanitation Services
Ultimate Sanitation Services (USS) is headquartered in Washington, DC, with a second office in London and a fairly extensive online presence. They are an exclusive company, but not in the typical ‘you will pay lots of money to use our services’ sort of way. Instead, they are very selective over the clients that they take on. As for cost, don’t worry about it: clients simply give USS everything except the clothes on the client’s back and whatever can fit into a standard briefcase. Part of the selection process, in fact, is weeding out the people who don’t need USS’s services that badly.
What USS sells is one-time, one-way access to an alternate timeline where the client was never born, but is otherwise identical to the client’s. Technically, ‘identical’ is defined as ‘96% congruent or better,’ but most people honestly don’t notice. Well, except for the fact that they’re profoundly alone now in a way that most humans could never be, but the lack of a past also means that there’s a lack of outstanding warrants, personal scandals, crushing personal debt, or even a horrible social media reputation. Some people think that it’s worth it. Enough to keep the company running, at least.
Then again, it’s not so much suggested as generally and accurately assumed that USS enjoys a comfortable relationship with the American and British governments, who will happily pay generously to really hide defectors of mob informants. Or perhaps those governments, like USS itself, make enough money off of that 4% non-congruence to not want to rock the boat. Whatever the situation, it’s stable enough that USS can provide its clients with valid IDs for their new location. After that, they’re on their own.
One last point: the (extremely secret) reason why USS is even in this business in the first place is that the whatever-it-is that allows them to hop dimensions like this only works when ‘used in the service of helping one lost soul leap from world to world.’ They’ve never been able to get around that — although USS never really tried, either. Why rock the boat on this one? It’s not like people looking for a new beginning are in anything like short supply.
I like this a lot but have one question: They have valid IDs but do they have valid backgrounds? Might make it awkward when they can’t produce evidence that they have gone to school or held a job.
I dunno. It’s an interesting question. Thanks.
Simon Tregarth probably would have initially preferred something like what USS offers, instead of what he actually ended up getting.
Though he still did quite well in the end.