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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
