The Empire conquered a border planet that one of the other spacefaring nations was using as a prison. As Abh territorial citizens, none of them were responsible for crimes done under other countries' laws, though we did warn them that Abh punishment is harsher than their home nation's.

The prison's administration and most of the female section of the prison wished to leave. Understandably so: the prison was gender-segregated and the de facto leader of the male section threatened everyone, up to and including me, for letting the women leave. I don't really understand lander sexual politics, but I could understand that.

The men staged a coup, and kidnapped my Supply Officer who was acting as an ambassador... did I tell this story before? There was an enemy fleet in the area. Admiral Spraugh bought me as much time as I could gather, but we ended up having to break orbit and leave Jin- Supply Officer Lynn in hiding because we were unable to locate him. He'd escaped everyone and couldn't make it to the last ground shuttle launches.

The enemy fleet was more interested in our fleet near the front lines than in reconquering their territory, so we were able to return and finish the job once their fleet moved on.