I learned that Dawn DeMarco was amazing at Alpha Centauri, but she really had the chance to show off in the months and years that followed. Not that most people realized what she was doing. She was real good at keeping things under the covers, but I had the pleasure of reporting all her very best deeds to Charles. She grew up hosting all the best parties on her home planet, and so she was a natural at the kind of highclass parties that disguised the very best war profiteering schemes. She slowly collected a gang of misfits that loved that kind of party as much as she did. Or at least enjoyed catching the war profiteers in flagrante, with no way to maintain their innocence. They sent many rich and nobleborn people to prison, and helped save more money than I can count for The War effort.