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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