This Union of Allied Planets colonel was the commanding officer of a Tohoku-class cruiser not far from the Georgia system. The colonel entered the bridge of his cruiser and asked a subordinate ensign to summarize "the fuss" he heard about. The ensign reported that it was an all-network alert about a cargo theft: six crates of Pescaline D had been stolen from a train on Regina en route to Paradiso. The colonel glanced at the report and briefly noted that the stolen drugs would sell for a fortune on the black market. Uninterested, he ordered the ensign to leave the matter to the local officials as he prepared to walk away. She stopped him, noting that a regiment of federal marshals was being held up in Paradiso. When the colonel told her to get them back aboard the train to their destination