Manifest

Governments prefer the version where unauthorized violence is wicked and authorized violence has stationary.

Aurelian prefers the Manifest.

The Manifest tells us who lost the grain.

Piracy also shapes city ethics through ruined wealth.

A port enriched by captured cargo learns not to ask where prosperity began.

Shipwrights know which vessels are being repaired in haste.

Moneylenders know who suddenly needs coin.

Customs clerks know what the Manifest declared.