"For future reference," says Miles to Galeni, "when I am working my ass off to delay and distract the enemy, the thing to do is not look at me as though I have transformed myself into a polka-dotted toad, it's to find a way to exploit the distraction. Sir. Now - what's ImpSec want to do about this? Call in the local authorities - or clean out these guys' comconsoles, nip back to the embassy, quietly arrest Mark, and put this bunch under surveillance like the rest of Earth's crop of Komarran expatriates?"