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“We’re going to run this by the book,” the woman’s voice said. “Plus, cameras are rolling. This footage will be used for their intro package to the games.”
The Gov never missed an opportunity. Boyer scanned the screen of the device she was handed. They were throwing the book at them. Boyer winced at every bullet point. Given that they were in lands formerly known as the nation of Canada, she knew that the droid was likely pulling details from the AI cloud its quasi-sentience depended that were relevant to the territory. Never one to reinvent a well-worn wheel, the Gov had spliced together the laws that worked to achieve the purposes of the Corridor in the spirit of governing efficiency. She was looking at a mashup of one of the world’s once-great democracies’ criminal codes.
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