Corsair/WMG

Canale is actually cursed

So Beautiful It's a Curse. Dead serious, it explains everything.

Same name, same universe

Corsair by James L. Cambias, in which two computer hackers are trying to out-hack each other so that robot spaceships will drop ore into their part of the ocean, is in the same universe as this. I don't know if Mr. Cambias would be (or will be) pleased by reading that his (ahem) "hard" SF with spaceships story is in the same universe as some sort of gay romance novella / comic book series. Well technically Boys Love light novel / audio drama / manga, but whatever.