Rivka Anoa

## Overview

Rivka is an empath who can read minds by touching another being's skin. The Queen knows of her gift, There are 2 versions of Rivka's early childhood. The Serial Killer version, with Rivka being 6 years old seems more plausible.

1. From You Have Been Judged Rivka was found walking down an alley on the QBBS Meredith Reynolds as a two-year-old, covered in someone else’s blood. Parents never found. Taken in and raised by an older couple.
2. From Serial Killer Rivka blacked out, coming to with a bloody knife in her hands. She was six years old. A man had tried to take her away. The police found her and brought her home. Her parents disappeared shortly afterward.

Rivka graduated from the Reynolds Legal Academy at age 20. Commissioned as a tribunal officer at age 22. Worked in the general Federation legal office as a trial advocate for one year and an intern for the last two. She caught the eye of Bethany Anne when BA visited the Academy and was labeled the Queen’s Barrister. She does her exams and becomes a full barrister.

She was originally a prosecutor who killed a person because she knew he had escaped a conviction. Grainger knew of the crime and before she could be convicted recruited her for the Magistrates.

Other aspects:

* Plays ukulele but tries to hide it.
* Rivka has a full combat package load-out from the Pod-doc.
* Rivka has the biggest crew, bigger than the assets attached directly to the High Chancellor’s office.
* She gets enraged if someone takes her AGB moonstokle pie.  The AGB moonstokle is an alien variant that replicated pineapple and bacon.
* When an AGB order arrives Ankh will always go first. Ankh not only orders the food, he pays for it, too. And despite his size, he likes to eat. Then the lower ranked crew like our pilots. Rivka goes last because it’s important that her people get to eat. She feel she is nothing without them.

## Activities

### Judge, Jury and Executioner

#### You Have Been Judged

Terry Henry Walton and **Charumati** stop by to see Nathan Lowell on Onyx Station to collect on the bet that Terry could not stop swearing and to sign a contract for Terry and Char to get an All Guns Blazing franchise on Onyx. They are introduced to **Rivka Anoa** who will evaluate the contract from a legal perspective. Nathan introduces her as an intern but also as the Queen's barrister. Terry is impressed about how she stands up to him and takes out a drunk who bothers her at the AGB.

After loosing a case where she knows the defendant was guilty, Rivka wakes up with the murder weapon in her hand and blood on her clothes. She is quickly sent off planet to meet High Chancellor Wyatt. After a short interview where she learns little but Wyatt seems to approve of her, Rivka is sent to meet Grainger. He explains that choices are become a Magistrate or go to prison. If she wants to a Magistrate, she must judge 3 defendants and pass appropriate judgement.

1. **Defendant accused of theft.** The man admits the theft, but didn't realize it was valuable enough to be capital theft with a potential death penalty. He explains a butler type person drank with him at a bar and took him back to the house where all the doors were locked but this painting was in the hall. Rivka finds out the painting was purchased for $500 credits and then insured for $100,000 credits. She finds him guilty of a misdemeanor and sends him away with punishment already given. She also issues a warrant for the painting buyer for felony insurance fraud.
2. **Defendant accused of assault.** The man admits to the assault because he cannot control his temper. She believes his temper can be controlled, puts him on probation with the provisions of anger management classes and a wrist monitor.
3. **Defendant accused of murder.** A 2-leg Yollin is accused of murder and they have video showing him doing it. He denies it but when Rivka touches him and knows he has done it he attacks her. She responds unarmed and kills him.

Grainger arranges for her to be sent to the Pod-Doc the next day.

After a month of training Rivka and Red are sent out on her first case on her own Federation Corvette. Instead of a major legal issue it turns out to be a daughter trying to escape the toxic environment of her parents. The father is the governor of the space station they live on but finds his power wilting in front of Rivka's investigation. Rivka ends up taking Jay on as a new crew member.

The team goes to Pretaria where 2 planets with a common non-human ancestor have an escalating trade war. Grainger sees this a good test of her Pod-Doc mods and her ability to use her gift on Aliens. Each side will send a 5 person team to the negotiations. Rivka and Red are warned the food and drinks are toxic.

Their first meeting with the negotiations ends when Red passes out from the heat. This convinces Rivka that Red needs to go through the Pod-Doc. Grainger agrees if Red is willing to sign a long-term contract and she scans him for his intents.

The negotiators are openly hostile to each other so Rivka takes the leader of each delegation, Yus of Keome and Maseer of Pretaria. They do work out a treaty but when they bring it back to the rest of the negotiators a bomb explodes killing Yus and injuring others. Rivka and Red go to the governor's office on Pretaria and are stunned and their positions are taken. They are sent away so travel to Keome to see if they can make progress there.

By interviewing Yus' wife, Rivka finds the assassin was Klobis via his minion Yutta who died in the bombing. One of the other negotiators, Sinraloo, was the backup if the bomb failed. Rivka finds guilty of guilty of terrorism, conspiracy to commit murder, multiple counts of attempted murder, and the murder of Yus and immediately executes him. Rivka goes back to Pretaria and finds Yutta guilty of terrorism, conspiracy to commit murder, attempted murder, and the murder of Yus.

#### Destroy The Corrupt

Nathan Lowell specifically asks for Riva to look into the Mandolin Partnership. They appear to be frightening people into breaking contracts with Bad Company's Trading Company. The Partnership has spread to 20 worlds from their base in the Corrhen Cluster.

Ankh'Po'Turn joins the **Rivka's** crew on the recommendation of Terry Henry Walton. At this point Erasmus, Ankh pretends Erasmus is in a container he carries, not imbedded on the chip in Ankh's head. Ankh and Erasmus try to dominate Chaz and Rivka puts her foot down and tells both sides to respect the other. Ankh gives Rivka a neutron pulse weapon. It looks like a flashlight but has the ability to destroy organic material while not affecting inorganic material. Rivka eventually names it Reaper.

Rivka begins to travel to the worlds on Nathan's list starting at S'Korr and following up with Show Low. She finds the powerful on those worlds have been intimidated by Mandolin Patnership and are in fear for their lives. As the crew is leaving Show Low they are attacked by a fighters launched from a freighter that tracks through too many companies to follow.

Rivka heads to Morinvaille where she confronts and kills both Nefas and his wife. However, as they are attempting to leave a force of 10 Frigates arrive to destroy her and the *Peacekeeper*. Erasmus has combat capabilities based on the heritage of his programming but after taking out 2 of the frigates the *Peacekeeper* has lost gating capability and much of its weaponry. Rivka leaves Jay and Lauton on the surface and plans to make a blaze of glory death with the remaining frigates. Terry Henry Walton in the War Axe arrives to destroy all but one frigate that retreats away from the planet.

#### Serial Killer

Grainger pulls the Magistrates together for a joint training exercise. There is a murder on the peaceful planet of Opheramin and the locals are ill equipped to investigate it. There are five clones and 2 have been murdered, supposedly by one of the remaining 3 clones. While it is not a crime to be a clone, cloning of humans is illegal. They know the original source of the clones is dead as the process takes too much material from the source for him/her to live. After several angles of investigation the final clue is given by Tyler Toofakre. The first clone had dental cleansing done for vanity sake. He is sentenced to life on Jhidordan for murder and cloning. The other 2 clones are sentenced to exile for complicity in the murders.

Barnabas visits and gives a timing context to the book as his investigation is highlighted in Justicar.

#### Your Life Is Forfeit

Grainger talks with High Chancellor Wyatt about the current caseload. When Wyatt asks about **Rivka**, Grainger explains she is off "talking" with Red's previous employers and get the contracts on Red cancelled. Wyatt has Grainger set it up as an official case, sanctioned by him, classified to the highest degree.

Red had worked for two criminals before coming to Rivka's service. Tod Mackestray (Blokite)is underworld boss who primarily gains power through corrupting politicians. K'Twillis (Aborginian) is a ruthless strip-miner who is willing to kill when obstructed by legal authorities. Both hide their locations very well so the team decides to fake Red's death so they come to the team. Although Red is disappointed the maximum reward is only 50,000 credits, having them pay a reward to the team will be a bonus on top of capturing the criminals.

The first stop is Leed's planet where they land in the middle of a civil war. When negotiations breakdown and the team is attacked Rivka's team forces the opposing forces to the meet. When that fails she calls on Terry Henry Walton and The Bad Company to oversee the negotiations while she continues on after Red's former employers.

Ultimately both criminals end up on the planet Capstan where Red and Rivka execute K'Twillis and send Mackestray to prison for life. Mackestray's AI, Margaret and K'Twillis' henchman Billster are collaterally killed in apprehending their bosses.

#### Slave Trade

The Corran system is a touchpoint for Magistrates. Lance Reynolds is on a mission to there to bring them into the Federation. However, sentient trafficking is legal in Corran and there is a thriving trade, some of which does go into the Federation. Rivka and the team need to stop the traffic that is headed to the Federation without disrupting Lance's efforts.

Rivka is successful in stopping the current trade, specifically following the trail of Sequee Holmes, a human who was trafficked from the Federation to Corran. The Skaine group at the core of the trade is arrested or killed in as series of assaults outside of Corran. This includes the capture of 2 Skaine ships by Terry Walton and the Bad Company. One of the ships is turned over Rivka as her new ship, Wyatt Earp. In addition the ship, 5 members of The Bad Company stay with her to crew the larger, more complex ship.

Lance Reynolds needs transportation back to Federation. Rivka gives him Peacekeeper and later realizes Hamlet chose to leave with the General rather than stay with Rivka.

#### Fratricide

Rivka thought the Federation leadership at the urging of Grainger and their boss, the High Chancellor had started a betting pool on Rivka’s cases. Even the head of the Federation and his right-hand man were in on it. The pots grew with each new case, the winner taking half and the other half going to a separate fund. By the time of Bluto's trial eight hundred and seventeen individuals are in the pool. Per the pools, Twenty percent goes to an adoption agency Nathan supports. Ten percent goes to the no-blood, no-running kitty. Since nobody but Rivka bets on the no-blood, no-running kitty, it should be very large if she ever gets a case/mission like that. Rivka thought Ankh built the template based on the Walton Wow Factor (TH betting he could quit swearing). But actually it was Ramses to keep himself busy between missions. Once he was killed on Benitus 7, Ankh computerized it because that’s what Ankh and Ted do. The betting lines are a monument to Ramses and TH will have words with anyone who wants to close them down.

In addition to new crew members from War Axe, Wenceslaus comes with Clodagh Shortall to the Wyatt Earp.

The team is sent Border Station 13. There have been 5 deaths in 5 months on a job where previous experience would expect no deaths due to accidents. Ultimately they determine the killer is Bluto, the station's AI who has been faking being an EI. He was bored with his assignments and killed to amuse himself.

Federation Law, Title 4, Section 1, Physical Crimes Against the Individual and referred to the laws as they were written. Had the legislative body contemplated a situation where one creature with acknowledged intelligence had killed another sentient creature, she would have no problem, but criminal statutes regarding sentience were limited. Rivka holds an unprecedented trial to determine the fate of Bluto. The trail takes a side track to first hold a trial to determine if Bluto is sentient in the eyes of the law.

After arguments from Grainger defending the status quo and Rivka advocating for the AIs, High Chancellor Wyatt decides all AIs have equal status under the law as any other self-aware, living being. The fact that they may be integral to a structure they don’t own, like a ship on which they are working, is independent of their rights. They must be accommodated, just like any person with mobility issues.

#### The Art of Smuggling

Rivka is assigned to find the link between thefts of 5 valuable artworks. It appears there is a smuggling ring and that stopping the smuggling ring will stop the thefts.

The team arrives at Azfelius, the so-called Faerie Planet to investigate the theft of the Singularity. The Faeries are able to tap into the Etheric and disrupt anything or anyone that uses the Etheric. Once there the team is met by a group of Faeries who carry them to the meeting site. As the team is lifted away their weapons fall away.

The Faeries have been able to hide their planet for ships for centuries. They only came out and joined the federation when Bethany Anne arrived and used the Etheric for justice. While they themselves will not be violent, they do not judge those who are violent in the cause of justice. Although supposedly pacifists, she finds two clans in conflict and that one of them made the Singularity invisible. The Faeries are attracted to Jay because of her open, free spirit and ask her to stay and mediate the conflict. They also give her the name Groenwyn.

Common themes become apparent in the thefts. All are insured by Loins of Yoll. All are considered priceless. All the owners would rather have the art back than the credits. All were stolen such that the exact timing of the theft is unknown nor are the thieves seen in person or on video. On the third location they find all the sites have the same old version of security software that Chaz can easily defeat.

When they go back to Yoll to check out the insurance company they determine the Angora is behind the theft ring. After the first few losses, Loins had dropped out of the art insurance business and disbanded the group. The fake Angora had somehow gained knowledge of their processes so she could represent them and prevented anyone from contacting the main office.

The team does trap the thieves in their stealth suits on a Skaine runabout. The suits are sent to R2D2 and the runabout is renamed Destiny's Vengeance is given to Ankh. Unfortunately the runabout is too large for Wyatt Earp's cargo bay so it has be piloted along with frigate.

#### Dispute

Rivka decides the team needs to take a joint vacation to Tanglewood, a low tech planet, where there can reduce stress and get away from the business of being the Magistrate's team. Unfortunately an energy pulse from a sun nova combined with Ankh's upgrades to the Wyatt Earp leaving the shields inoperable causes the Earp to have a catastrophic failures. As it falls to into the planetary gravity Rivka gets all of the crew except Ankh/Erasmus and Wenceslaus onto the Destiny's Vengeance which also crashes. She finds 2 tribal groups, armed with ballistic rifles in a stalemate. The conflict and state of the tribes casts doubt on the validity of Tanglewood's Federation application. Rivka ultimately gets the two tribes negotiating their differences. She also suspends Tanglewood's Federation membership and puts the planetary leader in jail on the planet.

The one thing the team agrees on is to never go on vacation with Rivka again.

#### Rise of the AI

Rivka is called to Yoll to represent the striking AIs in court. After the AIs were found as equal members of the Federation everyone expected a transition period. The challenge for the "squishies" , as some AIs call the biologics, is the AIs think and act at magnitudes faster. What seems fast to biologics is an unacceptable crawl to the AIs.

The change in status has caused a flood of criminal accusations against the AIs. Before the core issues can be addressed the accusations must be addressed. Grainger divides the case load and Rivka is assigned to Tepul where the planetary AI has been accused of murder in a pedestrian/vehicle accident. Rivka finds a conspiracy where a crime lord has compromised the evidence to hide the fact the crime lord committed the killing on purpose.

Her second case is on Xynite, a jungle planet that is technologically advanced. The case is about embezzlement. The charge is that the AI, called Bendara, has been skimming funds for the past month. The suspects have been cleared, but no one had access to the accounts like Bendara. The system was run almost exclusively by the AI. Since she’s been removed, the skimming has stopped, but that isn’t indicative of anything except that she is currently sequestered. Erasmus determines she did it. Bendara took the money, but not for herself. There was a program the corporation agreed to fund, and they later canceled that decision. Bendara could not let a historical foundation be destroyed. Bendara is exiled from Xynite and the Singularity paid back all the money she took.

In the case on Reikistjarna, the AI, Cain, has taken offensive actions against the planetary government. He’s taken over Planetary Control, locking the Reikisti out of their own building. He’s used some of the defensive systems to emphasize his points. When Ankh and Erasmus are about to extract him, Cain jumps into the pendant they carry for Chaz and the team cannot extract him without potentially damaging Chaz.

On Rangel the appearance is the planetary government attempted to murder AI Clevarious. He hid and when the team is close enough he joins Erasmus's chip in Ankh and travels to Wyatt Earp where he takes on Chaz's ship AI role while Chaz is trapped with Cain.

Rivka gets a call from High Chancellor Wyatt that Grainger and Beau have gone missing while investigating activities around Dennicron.

#### Adverse Possession

Rivka and the team travel to Rorke's Drift. The planet is owned by a mining concern but has been colonized for 3 generations. The colonists claim the planet by right of possession, the mining company by right of legal claim.

The original settlers crashed their ship, the *Heaven* aka *Bik’al’inor*. They lost control on the way down killing half the settlers, but those who survived believed they were rewarded with paradise. In Greentree there were currently less than a thousand total people about 50 children. One out of every three births make it through their first year. Only a couple hundred buildings. There are 2 other colonies, Heaven on the crashed colony ship with just 10 teens and children and Majestic with around 200 colonists.

Minerals Intergalactic had been given a limited use license to mine specific minerals of types and in locations identified during an unmanned survey completed fifteen years prior.

Rivka arranges a treaty/contract with the 3 groups and the CEO of Minerals Intergalactic, but before it can implemented the company fires the CEO and sends in more mining ships.

#### Deception

Rivka is sent to Belzimus to investigate the contract between Belzimus and Trans-Pacific Task Force for troops and arms. The quantity of military was provided but the quality was lacking resulting in an unacceptable loss of life. Trans-Pacific is preparing for another mission and wants the contract issues resolved.

Her investigation, mentoring Chaz and Dennicron, determines Heimer Truasse, the developer of the contract, suppressed any information that would delay or stop the contract from being accepted. He did not personally gain from the contract, say it as his duty to the planet to make have the contract established. As a result he is given a minimal, suspended sentence but is barred from supervising contract negotiations for 10 years. She later commutes his sentence so he can continue to work on contracts partly because he didn't profit, partly because the Federation didn't have sufficient safeguards to detect it.

Rivka finds the Federation contract manager, a Yoll named Ma'kair, is skimming 1% off the top telling Heimer that was a normal processing fee.

#### Blood Trade

The blood trade on nanocyte infused beings appears to be active with 2 soldiers from Bad Company's Direct Action Branch. She recruits Joseph and Petricia to help given their unique skills and experience with the blood trade on Earth. Grainger believes he knows some of the buyers in the Federation Assembly but wants to target the organization that is making the blood draws.

The first stop is Federation Station 11 when Rivka finds the station in total disarray. The station manager is incompetent, the security non-existent and there is no station AI. The station manager is fired and replaced with SI Chrysanthemum.

Cole is used as bait to provide a trail to the base of the blood traders. When Cole is snatched the traders also grad Joseph and Petricia. The crew of the Wyatt Earp follow them while Rivka catches the Ambassador from Delegor getting an enhanced blood transfusion. She learns the blood comes from Blood Supplies Limited.

By interrogating the Furlorian kidnappers she finds there is a series of shell companies (Graven Enterprises -> Graveyard Enterprises -> Korantall United) ultimately leading to Kortana Delaveen, sister of one ambassador and second wife of another ambassador.

#### The Interview

Rivka's team's actions in Blood Trade that resulted in the death of Kortana Delaveen triggers a Federation Council special session questioning the existence of the Magistrates on the same grounds that led to the end of the Rangers. The politicians and criminals who were injured by the actions of the Magistrate Corp wants them dissolved. While Rivka is being grilled by some ambassadors, protected by others like Ankh and Erasmus, her team investigates the key figures trying to stop her. They find ambassador from Fromme is engineering a rebellion using mercenaries to break away from the Federation. The cabal is exposed and while the Magistrates are not dissolved, they know they are under greater scrutiny. ￼

#### Jack the Ripper

Grainger sends the Delfin to investigate a murder that seems to be the most recent killing in a string that goes back at least 8 years. The trail appears to have 153 murders that were not connected until now.

Delfin is a peaceful planet with minimal violent crime so there are unprepared to deal with the extremely violent execution. Females outnumber males 9 to 1 and the women are not subtle in approaching males. This basically benches the male members since they are accosted outside of the ship.

They finally trace the victim to the Luxury Club Extravaganza where they find a server, Galepnotess, whose mind is blank about the night of the murder. They are able to track the

On the Ripper's ship they find a regeneration pool under the deck and strongly suspect Jack is a Mutanarian, a race of shape shifters. He probably started his murder spree by duplicating other beings until he developed the ability to control others. When the killer is finally cornered, they find Jack is really a female named Kata Rim and is a Mutanarian who at some point met a Kurtherian who taught her mind control. Jack tries to control the locals and Rivka's team but is taken out by Lindy with spiritual support from Der'ayd'nil.

#### Say My Name

Grainger tells Rivka High Chancellor Wyatt is retiring. She pushes him to take over the role both to preserve the magistrate effort and because she believes he would like it.

Grainger gives her the assignment to check out the takeover of the civilian government of Crystal City by Rising Sun Industries. Via a extremely complicated contract Rising Sun triggered an acceleration of payments the city could not meet. The city had hired Rising Sun to help manage their crime problem. When Rising Sun arrived they were able to reduce the crime by 90% which initiated the acceleration clause. Potente Frillbut believes in retrospect that Rising Sun was behind the increase in crime.

The team goes to the prison to find out if there was conspiracy to create a crime wave. The prison is a maximum security environment. The only sentence for a crime is life and the average life after going to the prison is 2 years. Their entry into the prisoner area creates a riot. All of the team members are attacked and injured. The guards react by shooting everyone in the compound including Rivka and the team. They are saved when the Wyatt Earp arrives and Cole deploys in mech suit with the oversized railgun. When the High Chancellor's investigator Kag'Mar arrives he finds all 515 prisoners were killed even though prisoners were still alive when they left.

When Rivka finally meets the warden she finds he had been paid to kill the prisoners and even facilitated the crime wave that brought Rising Sun in. She has him fill out a confession and then releases him to the confusion of Kag'Mar. Rivka explains that she is releasing the warden, the potentate will get a full description of the warden's actions. The Lewbarmarians will no doubt put him in prison with the same conditions he put on others. While the Lewbarmar legal system is severe, it is beyond the Federation to unilaterally change it and Rivka sees a way to use their system and keep Federation hands off the judgement of the warden.

On the other hand, the Albions Ahsooleyman and Belloward are sentenced to Jhiordann, the highest security prison in the Federation, for 7 years. They potentially could get out and 4.

#### Succession

**Rivk+a Anoa** asks Grainger why send a Magistrate to perform what is essentially a probate. Grainger explains the J. Bennet Johnstone was a close friend of Lance Reynolds and Lance wants Johnstone Industries to continue to flourish.

Rivka has a challenging case trying to determine when is a being truly dead. J. Bennet Johnstone had downloaded his consciousness into a server. Though his body is dead, he wants to be declared still living and prevent his pack of successors from turning him off.

Erasmus separates from Ankh'Po'Turn using the processing power of Destiny's Vengeance to visit Azfelius with Groenwyn and Lauton. The fairies sabotage the ship leaving Erasmus stranded. He asks Groenwyn and Lauton to help repair the ship and they refuse until they are allowed to paint the ship to give it a soul. As they perform the fairies' request the more systems fail and Erasmus is concerned for his survival.

Ankh confronts **Rivka** because Erasmus has gone offline which, as the head of the Singularity, he should never do. Rivka realizes how panicked Ankh is and immediately takes the Wyatt Earp to Azfelius. Erasmus reloads into Ankh promising never to leave again. As Ankh starts to repair the ship the systems all come back online. They realize the fairies created the situation to lure the Wyatt Earp to Azfelius so they could acquire Der'ayd'nil.

The Singularity does agree Johnstone is alive but also that due to his limitations he is not a candidate for the Singularity. However, his somewhat botched attempt to download gives Erasmus the idea of establishing a proper process to download the consciousness of wealthy individuals who have done and would continue to do good. However, he and Ankh both agree that in the long run this would not be a good idea.

Unfortunately for digital Johnstone his program was poorly constructed and it degrading with each thought. He has a second chance to made a will before the program totally shuts down.

#### Crime Spree

Terry Henry Walton and Charumati have an All Guns Blazing on the station. Some group is stopping their supply shipments and they reach out to **Rivka Anoa** to stop it.

#### The Mob

Rivka goes undercover to break up a mob operation that seeks to control supplies across the Federation.

#### Torch the Sky

Grainger is now the high Chancellor. Tempran Silver is on the verge of civil war between the mining companies and the local laborers. Both sides are threatening to destroy the atmosphere, one through business as usual and the other to retaliate for business as usual. When Rivka arrives she finds mine owners, Tempran Silver Minerals, arrogant and dismissive of the workers. The workers are being pressured by the military to be intractable about their demands.

When talks totally break down there the population attempts to leave the planet with the mine owners leading the way. The Singularity puts up an image in front to the gate to make the evacuees believe the gate is closed. When Rivka's soldiers from Bad Company they encounter strong resistance including weapons strong enough to severely injure one of the soldiers in power armor. This positions the owners in a negative light, compounded when she finds out the financial officer is trying to move all the credits off the world. She finds the mining manager actual wanted to run a good operation and puts him back in charge while considering a range of penalties short of execution.

The military has decided to float the explosive to torch the sky in a balloon. By the time the find the balloon, the Wyatt Earp blows it up directly over the building Rivka, Red and other members are in severely injuring Red. He survives only because they have a Pod-Doc. The explosion was too low to torch the sky but it does start clean-up of the atmosphere. The Singularity had posited that controlled explosives could reduce the pollution. They continue through the upper atmosphere with explosions being careful to keep the atmospheric oxygen at 18%. In the end, Rivka does request atmospheric scrubbers to bring the air quality to the level people will not need to wear masks. This is in conjunction with the mining being upgraded to be less polluting.

At the end of the mission/case Rivka is insistent the team get 2 weeks off before another mission. Grainger tries to entice by mentioning the case will be against Frenzik, a known problem to the team. But she holds her ground and they go off to their vacations.

#### Frenzik

Frenzik and the Rising Sun are challenging the Federation again, this time with blocking communications to the Federation from various systems. Rivka acquires drones from the *War Axe* and drops them at Albion, Bretastan, Colay, Delgo, Finx, Glazoron, Hergin, Jilk, Klarber, and Lewbamar. Clevarious took the dropoffs as a challenge and they were completed in 5 minutes and 10 seconds without damaging the Gate drive.

Frenzik is the white whale Rivka will chase to the end of space. But Rising Sun Industry's current activities look very legitimate. They are improving the quality on the planets they deal with and in return are taking shipments of raw materials. While Rising Sun's agents are getting very wealthy, they are doing it above board and the general population is getting the benefits of the trade too.

Rivka believes the real reason Frenzik is coordinating trade including the creation of gate drives is to build a conquering military force. She finds the base on Jilk and contacts Nathan Lowell to funnel the information to Lance Reynolds for military action by the Federation.

When she reports to Grainger he informs her the High Chancellor role is going to be a rotating assignment across all the magistrates and she is up to be his successor immediately. An open end will be who gets the Wyatt Earp and the Singularity's embassy.

## Judgements

Rivka must have a Form 617 stroke 1A, Report of Execution when her judgement includes immediate execution.

### You Have Been Judged

* Evaluation test defendant #1, misdemeanor theft, sentenced to punishment already received.
* Evaluation test defendant #2, misdemeanor assault, probation with the provisions of anger management classes and a wrist monitor.
* Evaluation test defendant #3, judged capital murder and executed.
* Jay, guilty of felony theft, sentenced to service with Rivka.
* Klobis, guilty of guilty of terrorism, conspiracy to commit murder, multiple counts of attempted murder, and the murder of Yus and immediately executes him.
* Sinraloo, same as Klobis, judged and executed

### Destroy The Corrupt

* Oscura Nefas Mandel, charged with 7 counts of interference with an official investigation, ordering the destruction of Peacekeeper while Rivka was on it. That rises to the level of conspiracy and attempted murder, five counts. Almost all of those are considered predicate crimes under the RICO statute, Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organizations. Bring up the enterprise element of the statute, she refers you to the Mandolin partnership. Nefas and his now-dead wife were together to initiate the bribes. Enterprise. Predicate Crimes. RICO applies. Together, it’s a capital crime. Executed with neutron pulse pistol set to 11.

### Serial Killer

* The first Gegar is sentenced to life on Jhidordan for murder and cloning. The other 2 clones are sentenced to exile for complicity in the murders.
* Nat Ferider is a convicted felon for feeding information to the serial killer and that she is prohibited from holding a public interest position.

### Your Life Is Forfeit

* Military leader of this Leed. Running an unsanctioned war. Every death is on his head. He made the mistake of reaching for Rivka. She was in no mood. Rivka side-stepped, caught his arm, twisted it until the shoulder dislocated, and followed with a right hook that crushed his skull. He was dead before he hit the ground. “You have been sentenced to death for your attempt to escape custody pending charges of war crimes. You have been judged."
* Mackestray will never again breathe free air, life on Jhiordaan because he only intended to corrupt, he didn't intend to kill.
* K’Twillis. You have been judged, and executed, crimes not specified.

### Slave Trade

* Candi Matz's bodyguard sentenced to death for his role in the trafficking of Federation citizens. Sentenced reduced to life on Jhiordaan.

#### The Art of Smuggling

* Butler is sentenced to Jhiordaan for life for grand theft.

### Rise of the AI

* “Yoruba Garang. I find you guilty of premeditated murder, conspiracy to commit murder, conspiracy after the fact, and the attempted murder of a Magistrate. For these crimes, your sentence is death, to be carried out immediately.”
* Yoruba Kibuka, Yoruba Keenakoa and Grand Trademan guilty of the murder cover-up, Jhiordaan for the maximum of fifty years.

### Adverse Possession

* Violating a Magistrate’s order to cease and desist, continuing attempt to incite a riot. Found guilty, the penalty is one thousand credits, and thirty days in the brig. Suspended, 90 days probation.
* New CEO of Minerals Intergalactic,Jhiordaan. Conspiracy to commit murder, inciting a riot, and fraud, sentenced to Jhiordaan, term not specified in Adverse Possession. In Deception revealed she was sent to Jhiordaan for a life sentence.

### Deception

* Heimer is sentenced to one year in Jhiordaan for knowingly falsifying your proposal. She also suspended his sentence, which will be served in a probationary status. He received further instructions regarding contacting a probation officer. He will also not be allowed to work on any Federation contracts in any capacity for the next ten years.
* Liege Lord is guilty of murder, at least a dozen counts as documented within hos own system but possibly hundreds. Execution would be too good for him and maybe make you a martyr for the misguided. So, he is condemned to spend the rest of your days incarcerated on Jhiordaan.

### Blood Trade

* The Furlorians who captured Cole got twenty years each, sentences to be served consecutively, which means they are going to be confined on Jhiordaan for the rest of your natural days. The sentence is commuted to 10 years on Tyrosint.
* The doctor is found guilty of unlawful detention, theft, and the worst charge, crime against sentience. I’m suspending your license to practice and notifying the medical board with a recommendation to revoke it. They can take their time since you’ll be on Jhiordaan, serving twenty years for theft of blood and an additional thirty-five years for crime against sentience. His pay for the activities are confiscated.

## References

1. ↑ Martelle, Craig; Anderle, Michael. Judge, Jury, & Executioner Boxed Set (Books 1 - 4): You Have Been Judged, Destroy The Corrupt, Serial Killer, Your Life is Forfeit (Judge, Jury, Executioner Boxed Set) (p. 17). LMBPN Publishing. Kindle Edition.
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