"Well they'd better arrive bollmin' soon," the out-fitter sneers, "I don't plan to waste my days diggin' around on the last outpost to nowhere."

"Outer postings," Baltaar thinks, "More Customers, that is what third-partiy treatises are for," Baltaar says directly.

"Treatises?" the out-fitter says a bit startled, "I've never had to live by any treatises before."

"Worry not," Baltaar replies grandiosely, "With ample provisions for share-leases, shell conglomerates, blinded trusts, double books, etceteran, we can cache our provender and clear out of the entire transaction without a trace."

"Why I'd rather just grab our share and disappear," the out-fitter retorts.

"Something like that," Baltaar smiles grandly, "But it is all merely conjecture and speculation," Baltaar shrugs.