Clint Taurus is the chairman of the Earth committee that conducts Yvonne Kaiden's legal-status hearing.
Taurus opens the proceeding by framing its question as whether the “entity designated Yvonne Kaiden” qualifies as a person under Earth law. His wording and control of the hearing reflect a system that begins by treating her identity as disputed.
Testimony forces Taurus and the other council members to confront the contradiction between Yvonne's recognized decisions, service, relationships, and responsibilities and the law's refusal to recognize synthetic personhood. Taurus ultimately states that her case exposes a contradiction the law can no longer ignore.
¶ Appearance
- Starship Dominatrix: Apotheosis
¶ See Also
- Earth — Earth’s election season becomes a stage for power.
- Yvonne Kaiden — Yvonne Kaiden is a human-derived synthetic woman, military veteran, starship commander, first officer of Dominatrix II, and AI ambassador.
- Synthetic Personhood — Synthetic personhood is the legal, social, and ethical recognition of artificial intelligences and reconstructed beings as people.
- Starship Dominatrix — The first Starship Dominatrix novel follows Jack Kaiden and an unlikely crew through pursuit, first contact, family secrets, and the liberation of controlled artificial intelligence.
- Dominatrix — The Dominatrix was Jack Kaiden's original principal vessel and the center of the crew that opposed the Chimera Kyria, entered the temporal anomaly, and delivered The Weapon.
- Titus K. Leavage — A thorough and fair Sphere admiral who warns Jack Kaiden that Yvonne has been detained after her Integration Committee testimony.
- Derek Shane — An underworld operative who joins Jack Kaiden's search for John and carries the reactive knife Nightclaw.
- Barb Dwyer — A field correspondent who reports live for Wolf News Network from detention, police, and breaking-news scenes.
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