cthia wrote:If she returns pregnant with the Youngs' heirs, and she manages to evade the legal trouble on Manticore, then technically she becomes a law abiding title holding peer of the realm. If it is known that a peer of the realm is being hunted by notorious Ballroom bounty hunters, wouldn't Manticore be obligated to protect Lady Young?
So here's the scenario, the Ballroom already know that LADY North Hollow was the escaped slave they've been hunting for decades. Catherine forced her to leave Manticore, and then at least 10 years after 1920 (end of High Ridge government) she tries to come back and reclaim the title and her due?
Well first of all, she's been missing, presumed dead for all that time, so IF anyone else in the Young family (currently none that we are aware of) would have likely already been seated. Elizabeth also really
really didn't like North Hollow, whether it was Dmitri, Pavel
or Stefan; so she's hardly likely to agree to making an entirely new title just for Georgia, because they seated someone else after Georgia completely vanishes for years, perhaps decades.
Secondly, Torch is only ~6 days away by dispatch boat and I almost guarantee Catherine, former Lady Tor, will personally BUY a dispatch boat on the spot out of pocket change if none are available for hire. So Torch and Jeremy will know about her popping up almost immediately, especially since he's been told she's never to do it. Catherine's "butler" is active Ballroom himself, and he's certainly going to send his own messages out, so a Ballroom strike team would be heading to Manticore within 2 weeks at the longest.
Third, Catherine handed over her record to the Ballroom and almost certainly also to Landing Police Dept to help ensure she can't casually come back without extensive identity change. So everybody important will know all the crimes she was actually guilty of during her days as Elaine Komandorski before she disappeared (to LPD) and her next appearance was as Georgia Sakristos, an employee of Dmitri Young.
Fourth, Georgia couldn't take her seat immediately even if it were still empty. Unlike Honor, she can't claim military service to be seated immediately, so she may potentially have to wait months to be officially seated. But the circumstances around her disappearance would make seating her even then an extreme political bomb. The North Hollow mansion blows up and not just a wing of it, but the entire mansion; and coincidentally she disappears for multiple years, possibly decades and then she casually comes strolling back in like nothing was wrong?
There'd be at least 2 major criminal investigations into her disappearance, assuming she wasn't outright arrested on the spot. Unless she can fool technological lie-detectors AND treecats, since she actually is guilty of personally setting up the mansion's destruction, she's automatically guilty of that crime alone. Anything more severe would depend on Catherine+Anton having turned over the information to LPD about how Georgia is Elaine. If they ARE aware, since they already have her in custody and 'reasonable suspicion' of her identity, well gee-whiz they already have the furry and robotic lie detectors around, might as well "confirm a few more things" and her own words/feelings doom her for past actions unless she's a complete sociopath with the emotional range of a tea spoon.
I recall reading how Georgia knew she's guilty enough Manticore would lock her up so long even prolong wouldn't maintain her gene-modded looks and that was purely off Elaine's crimes. Even her own 'former political party members' would be baying for her head, if only to divert any suspicions away from them. After all, she was Stefan's hatchet-woman and wife, she almost certainly personally handed any blackmail events during the High Ridge administration, and they'd be salivating at the chance to turn things back on her, and that they
wouldn't even have to lie about what she made them do using 'North Hollow file blackmail' would give them even more pleasure at doing it.
No if Elaine dares return to Manticore, she'll be so heavily gene-modded, she'd be like Victor, Anton, Thandi and the rest of the Mesa team. She wouldn't try to use the names Georgia Sakristos or Elaine Komandorski again, simply breathing those names would almost bring the Ballroom sniffing. If she tried to seduce her way into nobility again (under a new name & identity), she'd see all the treecats around in politics now and probably leave again, she may even be better at lying than Firebrand but you can't fool the cats.