Who doesn't dream of possessing real power. To steer the future of a planet with one sentence. To stamp your name for posterity by naming a planet, or better, a whole system. To rule the stars rather than be controlled by them.

When a man calling himself an Imperial Captain called and offered that very power, there was no question Cal would accept. Even when he was told the cost, he still said yes. What did it matter what people called you. It was the power that mattered.