The huge drone freighters that coast between the Good Moons and Heidelberg are quite elegant, if one equates elegance with efficiency on an exchange-credit per newton-second basis. By any definition not rooted in economics, they are ugly. And if you look at them in terms of their up-front capital cost, they are also hideously expensive. One of them had been destroyed, blasted into a million pieces of orbital debris by an improvised missile. Because the freighter was traveling between the moon Rosmerta and the planet Heidelberg, polities which are closely allied but independently represented as sovereign states within the Free Confederation of Allied Worlds, the investigation falls into the jurisdiction of the Gendarmerie of the Allied Worlds (GAW). The local authorities will also be investigating, represented by the Arthurian League Space Police (ALSP). It is hoped that meaningful cooperation can be achieved, and the perpetrators be brought to justice.