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In any event, the Project X disaster would have a ripple effect that would strand Ferris and his companions in New Hampshire.

In any event, the Project X disaster would have a ripple effect that would strand Ferris and his companions in New Hampshire.

One may infer that various citizens' [[militia]]s strove with the various criminal gangs that were running rampant throughout the land and asserted themselves as the new force for law and order. (John Galt did promise in his speech that, following the final social collapse, he and his fellows would "act as the rallying point for such outposts of civilization" as other American "patriots" might build. Either Ferris and the others fell into the hands of one of the criminal gangs (in which case they were probably killed out of hand), or they fell into the hands of one of the militias. In which case that militia held them for eventual trial by a special tribunal, either before [[Judge Narragansett]] or at least before a court that operated under rules that Judge Narragansett, as Chief Judge of the new United States Committee of Safety, made and enforced. Floyd Ferris would probably have been defiant to the last and dared the court to impose the maximum penalty. Whether he would have actually suffered that penalty is impossible to infer reliably.

One may infer that various citizens' [[militia]]s strove with the various criminal gangs that were running rampant throughout the land and asserted themselves as the new force for law and order. (John Galt did promise in his speech that, following the final social collapse, he and his fellows would "act as the rallying point for such outposts of civilization" as other American "patriots" might build.) Either Ferris and the others fell into the hands of one of the criminal gangs (in which case they were probably killed out of hand), or they fell into the hands of one of the militias. In which case that militia held them for eventual trial by a special tribunal, either before [[Judge Narragansett]] or at least before a court that operated under rules that Judge Narragansett, as Chief Judge of the new United States Committee of Safety, made and enforced. Floyd Ferris would probably have been defiant to the last and dared the court to impose the maximum penalty. Whether he would have actually suffered that penalty is impossible to infer reliably.

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