Karla reported. “There’s so much activity in this system that they probably wouldn't notice if we charged in transmitting a list of Captain Haddock’s favourite curses.” “Don’t get overconfident,” Joshua warned. “We’re just here to have a look at the system, nothing else. If they realise that we’re watching the system, they might suspect what we have in mind.” The Tauscher System had been utterly undeveloped when the Funks had arrived, established their supremacy over the natives and then started to put them to work on behalf of the Hegemony. Over several hundred years, they’d built up a respectable orbital industry and a set of cloudscoops to provide fuel. Oddly, the system wasn't operated by a single clan, but several clans – and it was clear that they didn't get along, even though the natives were restless. Unlike Earth, or most of the Hegemony’s worlds, there was no unified command authority in the system, even in orbit around Tauscher.
