Madeleine Issigri's manipulation of General Hermack to eliminate Milo Clancey, a rival in the mining industry, using the guise of cooperation.

In the Issigri Mining Office, General Hermack uses Warne’s surveillance report—confirming Clancey’s ship remains in a suspicious holding pattern—to escalate his accusation that Clancey is colluding with the argonite pirates. …

In the Issigri Mining Office, General Hermack seizes on Warne’s report that Clancey’s ship LIZ 79 has completed its link-up with the beacon fragment—a development that confirms his suspicions of …