The course thus charted,<em>Goshawk</em>proceeded...<br/><br/>The first problem, of course, was that using jump gates, one did not simply navigate from, say, Lead to Gold.  One needed to travel from Lead to a system with a gate that would lead to a system with a gate that would lead to Gold.  Thus, leaping from the remains of a Pirate Haven to Radium was a tangled pattern across the sea of stars!<br/><br/>This left plenty of time for deciding upon an impersonator for any given Imperial officer!  The good news being that any human would do, so long as they could act as though they had no sense of humor and looked comfortable in beige.  The bad news was that the available pool of volunteers was a bit smaller than hoped.<br/><br/>(TBU)