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=Chapter 10=
==Silent enim inter arma: Tribunals==
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Newark, New Jersey
North America, Terra
Sol Star System
Terra Protectorate
3078
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[On the hunt for evidence...]
The tsunamis hadn't been as bad as they could have, and the city where New Jersey the state used to be. It is still largely intact thanks to centuries of work to prevent hurricane damage as the globe warmed in the first 500 years of interstellar travel.
The bulwarks held, nobody died when Hilton Head was hit.
There's a fundamental danger to wandering around in uniform when the most common association with that uniform is someone who dropped bombs on cities.  Seether dressed out in her civilian clothes, and so did her staff, for the set of interviews she was conducting.
Her prey, were retired Comstar personnel.  Specifically people who'd served in the period before the Clan Invasion.
One of the most difficult tasks when putting together a legal defense in this specific case, was verifying information.  The CROWBAR shots had annihilated not only fortifications and defenses, but also the records stored within them.
Seether felt she needed those records, or witnesses who could fill the same role.
So she was working through local address directories and citizen registrations. Cross-referenced from captured records from Titan, Luna, Mars, and the abandoned Venus.
Most of the interview subjects weren't the sort that held high-level clearances, but they were the sort that might have been present at the level of being ignored by superiors who had high level clearances.
So far, the gamble wasn't paying off.  Comstar's internal security people had accounted for the floor-sweepers and the sanitation techs, and the ones they hadn't, were already in Stone's palm.
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