Celadon a poor nation on a poor planet engaged in civil war & a haven for every type of villainy in space is ripe for cleanup The military could pacify it handily but it would take a statesman to fix it But some statesmen have ethics which politicians & megacorps find inconvenient President Bishwanath compounded the sin by being astute ambitious & capable Something had to be done because a working nation isn&t much use for pork & graft When the word comes down that he is dead the politicians move on with a new plan re-allocating resources & finding a new more pliable president to put in place There are three problems with this solution Bishwanath is not dead His mercenary bodyguards are more loyal than the politicians & if they&re not on contract there are no rules