Letters of Marque

Folio 1/2

A seventeenth-century crown needed ships it did not own, crewed by men it did not trust, in waters it could not see — and it needed the outcomes without the custody. Its answer was a document.

Folio 2/2

Every credential I issue to an untrusted machine is a letter of marque. Bounded purpose. Named bearer. Revocable at the source.