Mercer Charter: The Instrument Between

Mandate: A Federation charter court wants a narrow treaty recognizing judgments, births, and emergency warrants without surrendering its elected local bench. Route: Khesret → Ee'la → Oath Post → Harrow Belt → Mercer Charter. The clock closes before the colony's next inheritance docket creates two incompatible legal heirs. The crew is hired as a neutral hull, witnessed courier of drafts, and working mediation team. Passenger comfort is part of the trip; it is not the contract.

At Limited Recognition Court, the clean problem gets teeth. The charter judges will accept reciprocal process and outside observers, but not replacement by a Concord circuit court. A registry counsel keeps slipping supremacy language back into the draft. Every side has enough law to make a mess and enough standing to punish a lazy answer. The crew must hear the parties, protect the record, test side claims, and keep the table open when walking out would be easier.

Terms: ₡10,500 gross, 8% board cut, Rank 0, LOW threat. Full payment requires a witnessed, enforceable instrument and a clean return copy. Convene an open hearing, separate portable recognition from sovereign control, and return a witnessed limited-recognition instrument both benches can enforce. Nobody pays this kind of money for dropping off a diplomat and waving from the ramp.