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  • Cut decides he will not be participating in the tourney
  • Richard is offered the position of the black knight, but he declines
  • Richard suggests that Veronica might be interested.
  • Veronica hires a riding instructor for herself, and Richard tags along to improve on his riding too
  • Veronica takes part in the arrangements of the tourney
  • Meori and Richard scour through the library for information on Justinian genealogy and Lord Ramius
  • 3 lines descended from Ramius, 1 of them directly
  • Tulan branch on Avalon
  • Tulan is the furthest branch
  • New Madrid branch on Tarquinia (the direct one)
  • New Madrid is larger than Tulan
  • New Madrid has 5 members in 3 generations
  • Midian branch on Midian (off-world)
  • Midian is a bastard branch
  • Cut goes to the guild to get access to the charioteers archive
  • He is his normal social self
  • Cut meets Heike, a distinctive (bald, patchy jacket) charioteer
  • They discuss the guild records
  • Cut wants to find Justinian owned ships from the time of lord Ramius
  • Cut gets a short list (whereabouts, ports of call, current owners)
  • Cut asks who to see at the engineers guild
  • Tethys is second only to Leagueheim, information wise
  • Heike offers Cut work, if he wants it
  • Cut visits the engineers guild, hoping to get the technical specifications for the ships still around
  • He gets the maintenance logs for the ones still on tethys
  • Cut tries to track down Justinian ships, where they went, to determine where the gate to paradise is
  • Cut tries to track down the owners of the ships
  • He finds a raider that was owned by Ramius
  • It was retrieved from Malignatius
  • Cut locates owner, pilot and mechanic
  • Lord Kopov
  • Engineer Julia Winters
  • Justinians captured the raider from Decados during the war, and the Decados want it back
  • Cut calls Veronica, tells her everything
  • Cut asks that Veronica write to Kopov, get access to the ship
  • Cut wants to know about Kopov
  • Richard and Veronica invite Kopov to the tourney
  • Richard inquires Phaedra's seneschal about Kopov
  • Baron Kopov is the Justinian attaché to imperial governor and head of Justinians on Tethys
  • Cut spends a month studying Think Machines and working for the guild
  • Cut divides his time between the guild and the local bars
  • Phaedra first asks Aran to be the black knight, but after he declines she asks Veronica who accepts
  • This means Phaedra can sit with Aran
  • Veronica and Phaedra discuss potential wives for Richard
  • 3 candidates
  • Phaedra's vassal, 16-yo knight, Justinian, recently received her spurs by quelling a rebellion, sure to arrive and participate
  • 20-yo widow, no offspring, from Tulasca
  • 18-yo Hawkwood from Sierra Azul, quiet
  • Veronica and Phaedra discuss potential husbands for Veronica
  • 19-yo Hazat baronnet from Vera Cruz, has good reputation, served for some time in Kurgan space
  • Phaedra is leaning towards the young guard, but her father is not and he makes jokes at the expence of the young guard
  • Aran tries to fend of Phaedra, who is in the mood
  • Phaedra has sent her husband away for the tourney, asks Aran to be her date
  • Richard and Veronica inspect squire candidates
  • Richard wants to find out if any of his candidates might have psionic talents, but can't do so openly
  • Richard has Duckworth find out about the candidates, all the things they would have left out of their "applications"
  • Richard's candidates
  • Lycana, a noble girl, 12-13-yo, householder of the local Justinians
  • Careful about what she says, warier than the others, but nothing specific anyone could put their finger on
  • Richard spars with the candidates, Lycana disarms Richard
  • Richard picks Lycana, gives her 2 weeks to arrange everything before joining him
  • Veronica's candidates
  • Phaedra's daughter
  • Phaedra's cousin
  • 2 householders
  • Karl Guttenberg, 13-yo householder
  • Philippa, 14-yo, Phaedra's daughter?
  • Veronica can't decide between them, takes them both
  • Armand Orlando (Eustace's friend?) is going to be the imperial representative at the tourney
  • Kopov will arrive, his son will joust
  • Veronica and Meori discuss the terrorists
  • Veronica tells Meori about her plan to make Richard defeat the black knight

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