Justice Ascends

They killed her once for asking questions. She came back with answers.

Josephine Givens has 4.8 million reasons to burn toward Pinnacle Station. Death warrants signed during breakfast.

Termination authorizations approved between meetings. Children measured in credit deficits and erased from existence when the numbers didn't add up. 

JUDGEMENT waited twenty years in glacier ice for a crew worthy of its purpose. Now it carries her toward an orbital fortress where seven executives hide behind automated weapons and forty-seven thousand workers who just learned what their employers really are.

The fuel margins say this might be a one-way trip. Her crew says they'd rather die for something than live for nothing. Someone in that station signed the order that killed an eight-year-old girl for costing 847 credits annually.

Someone will answer for it.

Her salvaged crew trusts her to know the difference between justice and vengeance. She's no longer certain she does.

The towers made her a warrior. The void will decide what kind.

When prosecution begins at weapons range, will she deliver verdicts-or become one?