I am beginning to understand why capsuleers sometimes bend the rules. If you just go by the book, it makes things much worse.
I contacted the DoD, the Department of the Deceased, in the Amarr Civil Service. They take care of the dead. They can give you permits to transport corpses, and allow you to perform autopsies and experimental surgery on them. Any other capsuleer would not have bothered, I guess, but I wanted to go through the proper channels.
It was a mistake.
First, I had to justify why I did not inform the MIO that I had discovered a corpse. They did not grasp the concept of exploration and archeology. Next, the dumb clerk thought I was Layla's brother. I had to explain twice I'm a friar. Then, the obnoxious man told me I desecrated a grave, and needed to obtain the permission of the next of kin to take Layla aboard the Indigatrix.
I had a hard time explaining there is no next of kin of a thousand year old Takmahl mummy.
I was told to leave enemy combatant corpses just floating in space.
I have been directed to the DoD sub-office of the Unclaimed Dead - they bury people that died but for whom no-one can be found to claim the corpse. Apparently there are so many people who die lonely and have no family left to take care of their burial. It is nice, they have poets recite poetry at the funeral that the DoD-UD office organises for the unclaimed. It's a thing. Paid for by the Empire.
In the end, the nasty clerk refused to give me any permit. Said he couldn't do it and I should probably contact another agency, the Amarr Science Foundation, to submit an archeology project. If it is approved by an ethics and religion committee, I can get a permit to work on Layla. It's highly frustrating, projects only have a 5% chance of getting approved. It's either that, or obtain approval from the closest living relative.
So, I now filed a request to consult the Book of Records. The physical one, not the online version which gets flaky for old records. In fact, I always wanted to visit it anyway... And, I hope to find more about the Accadis family, the name is rare enough that the search should be limited.
