TADJ6

==Chapter 6 - The Adjudicator==
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"...ladies and gentlemen of the jury, we've discussed at length, you have seen the evidence, the pictures, the medical examinations.  you have heard the defense counsel's arguments, it's time to decide.  When you go into the sequester, keep this in mind.  You must decide where the desires of one person and the rights of another person come into conflict, and you must decide what is more important, and whether the defendant was acting within his religious rights with regard to his child."
-closing argument in the murder of Li Jin Hoo, age 9. *unincorporated region, North shore continental mass, Kowloon
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Special Operations HQ - Clarrise Ngo's Office
Tharkad Naval Shipyard
Orbit, Tharkad Star System
August, 3159
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It turns out, there was something in the Gilmour papers.  The 90th had in part participated in the frantic search for a viable Cameron heir, when they came up dry. Instead of turning in the genetic records, the gunslinger Gilmour gave the documentation to Tranh Truk Ngo for safekeeping.
"Computer, database search...find maternal DNA markers for sample CAMERON."  It was DNA evidence but, it wasn't the kind that degrades. It was the kind you can keep in a locked room under an asteroid for centuries.
{Match Found}
Pairings lined up, "I need a geneticist." Clarissa said as the two images grew closer...and closer...and then, the pattern on display was identical.
A clone?  "Who is this?"
A name displayed.
"****** me...so much makes sense!"  but why wouldn't he have led with that?? thought Clarissa
Clarissa stared at the match. This made too much makes sense.
Except it didn't explain a ****** thing.  The only thing that DNA match proved, was that this had officially reached the point it was over Clarice's pay-grade.
"Dieter! is Admiral Ngo in the system?" she asked.
"Your Aunt? Yeah...why?" Clarissa's aide responded
"And is Admiral Falcone within one jump?" she added.
Dieter nodded, "She is."
"Good, I need to take this up the chain of command."
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It took four hours to get the CNO, and the Archon's 'pocket strategist' in the same room, this time with Roderick Steiner and the head of LIC.
"We have a working hypothesis to start this investigation with now." Clarissa explained, "However, it's a ****** weird one."
"Explain it?"
"What do these two men have in common?" Clarissa asked.
"Uh...I don't know." 
She brought up a third holoimage.  "We have a precise, clone-level DNA match." she said.  "What did Aleksandr Kerensky love more than anything? More than his kids, more than his country? More than his career? what really motivated him to abandon the Terran Hegemony?"
Sharon saw it at last, Trillian saw it first.  "my god..."
"Simon Cameron." Roderick said.  "Well, son of a bitch."
"Now my theory...we'll need to do some field work digging, but i think it's sound, and I think I need to visit Kittery to prove it...and if I'm right. This can turn Alaric right the ****** around and put him right on our necks instead of the Republic's."
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