The Ghost Standard
December, 1994
The Ghost StandardRemember the adage of the old English legal system: "Let justice be done though the heavens should fall"? Well, was justice done in this case?You have three entities here. An intelligent primate from Sol III—to put it technically, a human. An equally intelligent crustacean from Procyon VII—in other words, a sapient lobstermorph. And a computer of the Malcolm Movis omicron beta design, intelligent enough to plot a course from one stellar system to another and capable o...