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*** Of particular note in this sequence is the fact that due to being both pirates taken in the act ''and'' renegade members of the defunct of Office of State Security, every one of them is under sentence of death in Havenite jurisdiction. They are literally ''praying to be killed'' rather than stay in Torch custody.
** In ''Fanatic'' Cachet orders a "light" (meaning survivable)version of this dealt out to people who he actually did not suspect of anything but [[Batman Gambit|did worry]] would have attracted the governments malicious attention if he hadn't satisfactorily banged them up.
** In ''Crown of Slaves'' Victor gets the security codes of a ship by the simple expedient of putting several conveniently unsympathetic victims in a circle where they can see each other and threatening to go round in a circle shooting them one by one. TheyAfter ofshooting courseone chickenof outthem andeven givebefore himstarting thehis codesquestioning, believingjust (reasonably)to thatprove hehis sincerity. Unsurprisingly, the wouldsurvivors doimmediately itcooperate.
*[[Jurisdiction Friction]]: The People's Navy practically considers State Sec to be their real enemy. After all the Manticorans [[Nothing Personal|only shoot at them.]]
* [[Kangaroo Court]]:
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