In his heart, he hoped that she would see sense and leave the Church with nothing hurt besides her pride.
He continued to have occasional correspondence with her and strained irregular visits to see her on Mars. Though Bram was estranged from Joanna, they are still legally married. He soon rose to Sergeant and transferred to Commander James' squad where he met and partnered with Detective Cortez. It was sociable, low-stress and paid well enough that he soon became comfortable and had trouble remembering what it was that he ever liked about being a homicide detective.
He eagerly accepted to get as far away from Mars, his wife and Unitology as possible.īut, to his surprise, Bram found out that he enjoyed the work. Bram did not need persuading. Right then, he would have taken a custodial job so long as it was off-planet. He knew that they are looking for new hires and recommended the job to Bram as an easy life after the stress of being a homicide detective. Perhaps as a result of such a high-profile exit from the department, Bram was contacted soon after by an old homicide partner, now retired and working for the CEC's P-Sec division. For a day, he was on the headline news on Mars. During a particularly heated argument of the department's lack of resources, Bram punched his commander's lights out and resigned. It was at this point that a new commander took over the Capita Homicide division: A stuffy, middle management suit who Bram quickly discovered was also a Unitologist. Eventually, they fought when Joanna insisted on hosting a Unitologist group at their apartment and Bram moved out. The religion soon dominated her life, but Bram was perhaps willingly blind to its effects in his wife. Seeking solace, she turned to Unitology which was slowly growing in numbers throughout the Mars colonies. Bram married Joanna back when he was just a beat cop and she was unable to cope with a husband who was now constantly on call, always late at home and "too busy" to start a family. Unfortunately, the long hours and stress of the department ruined his marriage. Bram threw himself into work to cope with his grief and quickly established himself as a tenacious, intuitive cop dedicated to his work.
He succeeded, but the celebration was tinged with sadness as his father died shortly after of heart failure. The violence and depths of the human behavior that he witnessed there led him to try out for homicide to get off the streets as much as anything. Bram was a beat cop during the infamous Mars independence riots in Mars Capita, the planet's largest city-state. Immediately upon leaving school, Bram joined the Martian police to follow in his father's footsteps. Abraham Neumann was born on Mars on July 15, 2464.
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