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Wu Recovery Bulletin - Skip-Trace Abstract (Lavey) Draft

An in-world prop from Rock Lavey’s background. A recovery-broker’s bulletin, the kind that circulates the freelance skip-trace boards when a planetary warrant goes portable. The bounty, closing on the dead end.

The document (in-world)

JUDICIARY OF WU  ///  WARRANT SERVICE, EXTERNAL
DISTRIBUTED VIA REGISTERED RECOVERY BROKERS
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ABSTRACT OF STANDING WARRANT — FOR RECOVERY
Ref: WU/NEG-HOM/LAVEY        Class: PLANETARY

SUBJECT ...... LAVEY, licensed surgeon (LICENCE
               VOIDED). M, ~42, ~5'9", average build,
               greying, hands steady, keeps them still.
CHARGE ....... Negligent homicide, one count. Finding
               entered by the Provincial Medical
               Board and the court together. Fled
               before disposition.
JURISDICTION . Planetary. This warrant does NOT run
               on federal worlds and no Marshal will
               serve it. Recovery is a private matter
               between the subject and whoever brings
               him back to Wu soil to answer it.
COLLECT ...... ALIVE. A body settles nothing. The fee
               is paid on delivery to a Wu-registered
               port, breathing and fit to stand.

FINDING SUBJECT — NOTES FOR THE TRADE
  He will not carry a licence, a title, or a real
  name if he can help it. He will carry a full
  medical kit and he will use it. The fastest way
  to place him is the work: he cannot leave a hurt
  person alone. Put a bleeding man in front of him
  and he will stop, every time, whatever it costs
  him. That is not a guess. It is on the record from
  three separate skips.

  He answers to "Rock" or "Lavey" and flinches at
  "Doctor." A narrow professional circle still knows
  his face as the surgeon who was struck off.

FEE
  On application to the listing broker, quoting the
  Ref. Standing, no expiry. The clock is only how
  long it takes the word to reach whatever hole he
  has run to.
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This abstract is a recovery instrument, not a
licence to harm. Damaged goods do not pay.