“You spent forty years abusing the judicial prestige of this nation to orchestrate the private acquisition of Conduit Ten.”
“You deployed Blake Haron to publicly assault thirteen-year-old Evan Mercer, hoping to intimidate Damon Mercer into abandoning his ancestral homestead before midnight tonight!”
Cooper slammed his palm onto the brief:
“Under Section Fourteen-B of the 1944 Mercer Sovereign Lineal Charter: eighty years ago, Arthur Mercer Senior decreed that if an adverse commercial factoring partner attempts to murder, defraud, abandon, or extinguish the living lineal bloodline of the master surveyor on an active sovereign defense homestead...”
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Admiral David Mercer bared his teeth in a razor-thin, cold line of white bone:
“Every commercial share of The Valkyrie Trust, your family's estate in Lake Forest, Blake Haron’s commercial properties, and seventy billion dollars in carried defense reserves reverts in absolute, un-divided fee simple unto Chancellor Damon Arthur Mercer!”
“And his direct biological son, Master Warden Evan Arthur Mercer, in perpetuity!”
