The Captain, acting as Sailing Master, spotted the trouble almost at once: the outpost's approaches had been mined!  And as if that wasn't enough, there was a pair of Imperial cutters in-system...shoddy and ill-prepared, by the look of them, but cutters nonetheless, performing escort duty for the few ships making transit in or out.  Radium was clearly not as popular a way-station as it had been the last time Maroon had been through here...<br/><br/>"That," Mister Dimity said dryly, "would seem to qualify as a slight complication."