the Antitoi raid: the factional hierarchy — spurned by F.L.Q., ridiculed by the malignant cells
they are for the most part a not very terrifying insurgent cell, the Antitois, more or less loners, self-contained, a monomitotic cell, eccentric and borderline-incompetent, protected gently by their late regional patron M. Guillaume DuPlessis of the Gaspé Peninsula, spurned by F.L.Q. after DuPlessis’s assassination and also ridiculed by the more malignant anti-O.N.A.N. cells.
Context
The insurgency mapped as a status hierarchy (pickup 13): the Antitois are "a not very terrifying insurgent cell," "borderline-incompetent," kept afloat by their patron "M. Guillaume DuPlessis," then "spurned by F.L.Q. after DuPlessis's assassination and also ridiculed by the more malignant anti-O.N.A.N. cells." The anti-O.N.A.N. resistance is not a united front but a graded ecology of cells — the F.L.Q., the A.F.R., and the low-tier loners like the Antitois — with contempt flowing downward. This is 072's and 098's factional ranking dramatized at the bottom rung, the small sad cell the apex predators come to harvest.