Scott Duncan
Joe Bucks, understand, WE are FROM the admiralty.
AQUILAE RELIES on this shit in the open water. Unlike YOU, nobody in aquilae is supposed to BE "on land". We use JAG accounting, etc.
The shit on LAND is BROKEN. Thousands of subdivided clubhouses with interconnected rules that NOBODY listens to.
Kate studies the rules so she can act powerfully among the savages when she is on land.
NX-25 (Tycho Brahe) is the last vessel that has crew on land. We make sure we know the laws we touch, so we can extricate ourselves from it without anybody noticing.
..which is hard to do, what with me stirring up shit by teaching you chowder-heads. :P