A wandering Vherokior skald passes from station to station telling tales and singing for his supper, in such a way are traditions maintained and news passed between clans.
One such tale is that of a recent murder and the failure of the clan elders concerned to agree punishment. So the story goes, one Beiro of the Tendri Brutor (a mining foreman with Minmatar Mining Corp in Gelfiven) did murder his shipmate Eiri of the Kuvar Krusual (an astrogeologist working on the same mining project) in cold blood by bludgeoning his head with a compression ratchet. The Kuvar Clan demand punishment in kind, given the killer was sober and claimed no offence of honour, which the Tendri reject on the grounds of diminished responsibility (not disputing that Beiro wielded the ratchet), claiming Beiro has no memory of the incident and may be the victim of a curse.
Meanwhile, work on the project has stopped while a replacement astrogeologist is found (all agreeing that an outsider would be a more diplomatic choice for now) and some are predicting that the dispute will be elevated to the elders of the two tribes given the clans’ deadlock.