Mainly, I don't like the "Shoot First, ask questions later" attitude, since I don't feel like it fits in with the swashbuckling theme that I want.  The crew of the ship was completely innocent of wrongdoing, though; their ship was just as compromised by Chaos as the<em>Kobras Aquairre</em>, but there weren't any PCs aboard to fix things.<br/><br/>As for someguy, he dropped out at the time I said I needed to revise the plot, I simply let things run for a while in case he could slot back in.  There will be some changes because of that, and it's possible that Cortez had been replaced by an infiltrating clone for a while.  Most likely, the dynasty will either transfer the warrant to a placeholder heir, then just give the ship crews unlimited authority within the Mextil Cluster, or send one of Cortez' rivals, who will act as an NPC Rogue Trader.  (or another PC rogue trader, if there's a good canidate)