“What if he figures it out?”

“What can he do? Pod’s got no engine, no decent long-range radio, no scan. Dump him where hell fell down a well, into a star or something else big. Disable the radio and beacon. That way no one’U know he’s ever been there. ‘Sides, I don’t think his orders are real. Think about it, sir. Would the IG haul someone off a big cruiser like the Zaid-Dayan—an IFTL mes-