From the outset, rather than by complication? That would be the second one.
From everything we put together... you were flitting around as an arms dealer, turned up with a dreary faced man who was Emperor of one of the most hawkish empires out there, lost him, took over your own outfit a second time, actually sweet talked Tung and Auson into making nice [They drop into an aside here.] Which by the way was most unreal part of anything. I'd have paid half a year's stipend to have been in THAT room. [And right back into the story.] All to talk us into blockading a wormhole from a goddamn Cetagandan invasion.
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From everything we put together... you were flitting around as an arms dealer, turned up with a dreary faced man who was Emperor of one of the most hawkish empires out there, lost him, took over your own outfit a second time, actually sweet talked Tung and Auson into making nice [They drop into an aside here.] Which by the way was most unreal part of anything. I'd have paid half a year's stipend to have been in THAT room. [And right back into the story.] All to talk us into blockading a wormhole from a goddamn Cetagandan invasion.