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Sly Mongoose (Xenowealth, book 3) by Tobias S. Buckell
Sly Mongoose (Xenowealth, book 3) by Tobias S. Buckell
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Jurisdictional arbitrage.
"No, we can't just go in there and arrest him. They signed the Planetary Treaty, so Space Patrol doesn't have authority--it's inside an atmosphere. And the Martian and Jovian moon colonies would raise a stink if Earthgov tried anything."
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james_davis_nicoll) wrote2016-02-18 01:01 pm
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"No, we can't just go in there and arrest him. They signed the Planetary Treaty, so Space Patrol doesn't have authority--it's inside an atmosphere. And the Martian and Jovian moon colonies would raise a stink if Earthgov tried anything."