” He said “ son I have A LOT of pull around here and can make things happen.” So I said “ Okay like what extra credit or like service hours?�... He said “ Not exactly………… more like an oral presentation” I said “ like how?” He leaned back in his chair and said “like this you are going to come over here behind my desk while I set up this video camera to record your oral presentation.” So I got behind his desk and then asked him what I was going to be presenting. He told me that I was going to give. ”“Hence we wrecked their space side infrastructures and fleets, not their planetary populations. Though there was a bit of Ground Force action on that moon where they were extracting lantinium,” Mutra agreed.“True, they haven’t developed their mining and resource management very well; they have lots of resources in space but never built the means to harvest them, lugging everything up from their planets.”“It’s to do with their biology. They can’t work alone for any great length of time but need. For a verdict of innocence or for decision in a civil suit, a simple majority was all that was needed.The speed and efficiency of the Martian justice system meant that in a two-week period the average juror could hear testimony in as many as five different matters every single day. Martian trials moved quickly. Showmanship, blustering, and misdirection were not allowed and were rarely attempted. The lawyers for each side of whatever case were employees of the Martian government and, though they. “The scuttlebutt is that you like two guys at once. Well I have a good friend down in life sciences. I bet he and I have just what you need.”Enough was enough, the displaced Bridge Officer thought. Drawing on training she seldom had the occasion to use, Uhura whirled around and hit the crewman with as much force as she could put in a single blow. As he slammed against the wall of the lift, her other hand grabbed the razor sharp blade from her waist and brought it to rest against his carotid.