BALA-AMIN: You're familiar with Celeschul's "Special Assets" law, I assume?
CDRE TAGON: I'd better be. I wrote the stupid thing.
BALA-AMIN: Then you knew you were breaking it when you left retirement and took command of a company of mercenaries in service to a foreign power.
CDRE TAGON: I wrote it. I can re-write it.
BALA-AMIN: That's not actually how law works.
CDRE TAGON: I know members of the legislature who would disagree with you under oath.
BALA-AMIN: Okay, that's not how law works for regular people.