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(The period of time shortly after the destruction of the Peacekeeper Gammak Base, when Moya was desperately seeking for her offspring, Talyn, was an extremely chaotic one, which is why this entry is out of chronological sequence.)

For the first 15 solar days after the destruction of the Peacekeeper Gammak Base, the Delvian, the Hynerian and the Nebari repeatedly and frantically demanded that Moya traipse from one star system to another in search of the missing Human, Sebacean and Luxan. During this time, Moya's insistence on continuing her search for Talyn became progressively more difficult to refuse. After 15 solar days, we had reached Litigara, the last habitable planet within range of Aeryn's Prowler, but had found no sign of her, Crichton or D'Argo.

During a visit to the planet surface, Zhaan managed to become entangled in some sort of minor traffic violation, for which she was told she would likely spend 10 days in confinement. However, Moya made it very clear to me — and I made it clear to Zhaan, Chiana and Rygel — that we would be leaving orbit in only three days.

Zhaan was not content to follow the advice of her legal counsel, perhaps because she hoped to find a better one within the 90 percent of Litigara's population who were lawyers. Shortly thereafter, Zhaan managed to escape from her cell, but in her haste to rejoin Chiana and Rygel, she stumbled over a dead body and into a murder charge.

With Moya's desire to leave growing stronger by the microt, and Zhaan's lawyer unwilling to defend her innocence, Chiana and Rygel rather impetuously volunteered to represent Zhaan in court. I could not help but lament their ill-considered decision when I subsequently heard that if they were caught lying or presenting a bad-faith defense — which, so far as I could tell, was their only viable strategy — they would be executed along with Zhaan.

Apparently, the trial generated quite a stir on Litigara because the victim was a civil-rights advocate for the 10 percent of Litigarans who are not lawyers, and who are referred to rather disparagingly as "utilities." And from what I could discern from Chiana's hysterical shouting and Rygel's pompous blather, the most likely culprits were the lawyers of the law firm that ruled the planet.

Moya, unwilling to wait while her newborn traveled farther and farther away into the Uncharted Territories, decided to break orbit and leave Chiana, Rygel and Zhaan on Litigara....