He had all of their marriages annulled, put the
men into slavery, and had their wives remarried to Hashons. The Hashons
he then appointed to the positions the Havens had been removed from.
10 Everyone screamed for The Lord God to cancel the punishment, but The
Lord God only smiled. "I see nothing wrong," he proclaimed, "with what
The Commander has done. Let the punishment stand!"
11 Morn's sector became one of the cleanest in The Empire. North's ran
a close second. Criminals in North's sector had a strange habit of
disappearing and their property ending up in other people's hands,
especially drug dealers. The flow of drugs through North's sector
became almost non-existent, as raid after raid he seized production
plants, and destroyed finished products. Many of these raids Fleet knew
nothing about, as North put the captured materials and manpower to his
own use.
12 North's people dealt in contraband and smuggled in luxury goods, but
they never EVER dealt in drugs. They knew what would happen if North
caught them. He simply wouldn't allow such activity no matter how much
funds it might bring his growing movement. "You cannot build a Republic," he
insisted, "on the agony of the hopeless."
13 Most of his people agreed with him. Of course there were a few that
would acquire money any way they could, sometimes, not necessarily for
the benefit of The Rebellion. The growing rumors of a growing Rebel
Movement continued to reach Morn's ears, and if they were reaching him,
he was sure others also were hearing of it. He prayed that North was
being cautious, but he had little doubt that he was.
14 Morn had no idea others hearing those rumors were putting scattered
reports together, and coming up with the wrong answers. He would learn
THIS the hard way, as one day he was bringing cargo pods into a large
out-of-the-way station and the Governor asked him to come in close to