CHAPTER FIFTY-FOUR LAWS, TAXES, AND BULLION The advent of 4D technology radically changed the Domhanian business model within just five centuries, a single lifetime. Their galactic footprint expanded to hundreds of worlds, moons, and asteroids; mitigating the need for almost all mining on the homeworld. The corporations that successfully utilized dimension jumping technology to exploit far-flung natural resources evolved into quasi-governmental entities. Over those centuries Anotas convened numerous congresses to draft and amend the “Edicts of Codification” for governance of Domhanian off-world activities. Melanka found buried within those edicts a clause in the Taxation Code she thought just might trip-up Elyon and his Serefim sycophants. Corporate and personal [amended 6·38·23252] in

