Next, the accuser stepped up. This lawyer, just like the first, was dressed in a military uniform, with the pips and medals of the JAG. Unlike the other lawyer, he was a she. I liked her already: She was a tough looking pure-Han with a confident gait and a look in her eyes that looked a lot like a dog with a bone in its mouth. I had never seen a dog until Sarah had shown me one. They’d been bemusing. I had looked into its eyes. It had rolled over and shown its belly, then barked a few times. Dogs were weird. But they were determined.
“My opposition makes much of General Lau’s record.” She began. “Unfortunately, even the most sterling record becomes meaningless when certain actions are taken. Minor infractions could be brushed under the table for an esteemed general who had sound reason…but this is not a minor infraction!” She opened a folder – a nice manila envelope, with real paper inside, what a weird thing to see – and began to read. “The Indiscriminate Kinetic Space Denial Weapon System is a tube, roughly one meter in length, half a meter in diameter. Twenty percent is a launching mechanism powered by compressed gasses, preferably nitrogen or some other gas that has a high compression rate. The remaining eighty percent is made up of ball bearings. Micro-explosives. Mono-molecular blades. Sand.” She closed the file with a snap. “These weapons fire clouds of death into orbital pathways. They destroy space stations indiscriminately, killing not just today but tomorrow and the day after and on and on until their orbits decay, either naturally or through direct intervention. The use of these weapons breaks nearly every single law about space weaponry that has ever been put on the books, save those proscribing the use of atomics. And this man-“ She pointed at Lau. “Did not simply use them. He mass produced them. He had crude Lunar variations redesigned into more effective, more obscene, killing tools. If it were not for the individual bravery of soldiers under his command, we might not simply have the moral and ethical failings to live with…but also a truly impenetrable cloud of debris in orbit. Daniel Lau is not simply guilty of war crimes. He is guilty of crimes against humanity itself. Thank you.”
I was in loooooove.
Anyone around? 
