In recent years, the law has broadened the definition of principal place to a home office that is used to meet clients or customers or is necessary for administrative or management activities like billing, bookkeeping, forwarding orders or writing reports.

He took the dangerous step of allowing these identities to continue to exist, each consisting only of a forwarding order to another anonymous net identity that held all mail it received as encrypted postings on an open board with no-tracks protocols.

Ever since the Rowan mind-merge had subdued the Many Mind on the Leviathan Hive ship attacking Deneb, it had been assumed that the queens managed all aspects of control on the ship, formulating tactics and forwarding orders to their specialized minions.