Master copies and the temptation — "Also a maker of reflecting panels…"
‘Also a maker of reflecting panels for thermal weapons, and an important Annulateur, also, and amasser of the capital from opticals, before hostility and film,’ Marathe said.
Context
Marathe completing the enemy's dossier from memory, and in one clause reciting the same career arc scene 020's obituary gave us — weapons optics, annulation, capital from opticals, then "hostility and film." Both intelligence services carry JOI's optics résumé as operational data; the life's through-line the family scenes establish is here confirmed from the outside, by people who never met him.