The event Osborne referred to had occurred ten years ago, before either she or Hague had become justices. The so-called incident consisted of the world’s first-tier megacorps joining forces to punish one of their own for flouting the Corporate Court ’s authority. A military strike against some of the target’s holdings had been carried out with surgical precision, and the message sent was clear: defy the Court’s edicts at your own peril. Now loomed the possibility that another megacorp was heading up that same dangerous road.