Montresor Capital

Montresor Capital was a New York-based debt collection and private loan service active in the mid-to-late 2040s, primarily buying and collecting debt from technology and mining companies. It was notable for making a May 2048 debt purchase from Dystricon (then a minor armed escort provider in the Gambia), bringing Dystricon to nearly default on the debt. In July of 2048, however, Montresor purchased and attempted to collect on the (already paid) debt of A.M.M.A. Cambridge before suing in August. A.M.M.A. won the (fraudulent) case and countersued, acquiring all of Montresor Capital's assets (including the debt of Dystricon). Instead of pursuing collections, however, A.M.M.A. forgave all delinquent debt that Montresor still had outstanding collection warrants for and yielded all of its claims to Montresor's former assets.

'' This anecdote, while relatively unknown and obscure until 2105, has become well-known in popular culture and on alternate history and speculative fiction sites as a popular point-of-divergence from our timeline. The logic is that, had A.M.M.A. Cambridge (later known as the Hephaestion Institute) chosen to pursue the delinquent debt rather than forgiving it, they would have forced Dystricon (later known as Aegis) to default and be disestablished, preventing its rise to power in African business and politics in the 2050s and thus preventing the Helium War. ''