Site Significance

Other People's Stars — Ep 02: Site Significance Series One · Runtime 23:48 About Rosa Okafor is a second-year junior liaison with a notebook, one surviving pen, and the bad luck of being the nearest credentialed officer when a Vask trade-clade — a people who owe the great interstellar Accord nothing and have never forgiven it — arrives unannounced at Reach Orbital Sixteen to ask for something. They want the Accord to mark, in its own permanent record, that their six dead were people and not recoverable property; the Tcharn protocol officer sent to receive them refuses before the asking is even finished, because no such document exists in Accord law. With one hour's recess, three thousand sections of administrative code, and the career-ending example of her predecessor hanging over her, Rosa has to find a way to honor the dead without breaking the procedure that gives her any standing at all — a story about how the dullest paperwork in the galaxy can carry the heaviest things.