In 1900 PD, Canning was the People's Republic of Haven's consul on the planet Medusa, an officially neutral world in the Manticoran-controlled Basilisk System. He was also part of Operation Odysseus, and when a Medusan uprising, planned for and supported by Havenite agents, went out of control and began moving toward off-planet enclaves, Canning ordered the PMSS Sirius to leave orbit to abort the supposedly accidental appearance on the scene of a Republic of Haven Navy task force at Medusa. (HH1)