On some miniarchist habitats, individuals are given broad latitude in the settling of disputes arising from extracontractual issues, and so dueling is in vogue. Lincoln-5 Rhadamanthus-beta-27 practices in the megapolis of Interzone on the orbital ring Circus. As befits a member of the moravec lineage whose template is an embodied partial copy of the famed legal mind, Rha-damanthus, Lincoln-5 is as adept in the courtroom as xe is with xir dueling pistol.