That actually IS part of the reference. Don Corleone started out by using an olive oild.business as a front. I think kt was a front for bootlegging in particular. It's been a long time simce I've seen tbe Godfather franchise though.
And those are just the jobs Las knows about. Does he know about the Web yet? SWEEP is still in the works I think?
Imagine getting a smuggling charge over mining and logging equipment. Although with the Scarred Hand still at large, they are lucky a Supporting Terrorism charge wasn't tacked on for good measure. Mining charges and IEDs are close enough to count.
New military base on Minda-1 get! Intentionally giving the Corpos enough rope to hang themselves and then seizing all their hard work when they run afoul of regulations. What a genius pre-planned strategy by the Governor!
Yeah with the Guild expanding outside Las' domain, a more "acceptable" choice for leader is probably warranted. This shake up with the Guild leadership was inevitable as it grew.
That might seem like a harsh punishment (and it is). However, Corleone likely wasn't just planning to smuggle things into Minda, but they also probably intended smuggle things out of Minda as well.
Las, Grant is going to interpret that as an order to put the fear of the Empire into the ISB agent's goons and Reverse Frankensteinering anyone who objects.
Oh goody, now there's a slavery charge. As if Minda didn't have enough incentive to drop the hammer on Corleone. Corleone really sounds like once of those colonial companies that got up to some ugly business in the 1800s.
I'd vote against the Lancer for being too slow and the Star Galleon for costing as much as half a Gladiator.
What you makes you think they stopped looking? It's just the hand is a tiny group of people operating in cells across a system. If Las's people had found them in the space of couple days you'd have to ask how were they even a threat to begin with.
