340 Sentence [VOL 1 END] [update]

"What the fuck!?- Judge, the accused is clearly not in his right state of mind, I su-"

"Rejected, the court has already reached a conclusion through the accused's admission of guilt."

As Mu immediately started protesting the court's decision to condemn Dax and strip his inherent and most basic of rights as a living, intelligent being, a strained atmosphere spread throughout the courtroom as she was shut down by the Administrative AI. While the Administrative AI represented a third of the Galactic Empire, the Lazarus executive that it argued with was the cornerstone of the Empire's current technological advancement and superiority, while normal people seeing this argument might just think that it was Lazarus being greedy that wasn't all that was happening.

This was a power struggle, one which was potentially about to turn violent if a compromise couldn't be reached.