Perhaps, by third party you mean someone other than our displacers and Morningstar. There could be quite a few more than just one, considering our position.

[ and he's beginning to think there might be, that this is far more complex than any of them first anticipated. ]

When I first arrived, there was a large Godzilla-type monster that meant to destroy the city. It arrived from no where. All three large mega-corporations in New Amsterdam had a hand in researching where it came from—by definition, none of them had been responsible for it.

That means that it was someone else.