Oh, thank you for the plot. I am not sure what I will do with it (*glares at piles and piles of WIPs*) but I think they're all really great ideas to just ponder. Alexios (whatever his name is) is probably going to have all the awkward conversations with Hilarion about this black-market ale trade across the border that he knows nothing about, you see, but he would hate to have it become some kind of problem that he might have to officially admit to. Yeah. Meanwhile everyone's heard of Alexios' giant fuck-up with the Klingons and ending up in their space and the bit where he had to abandon his own warbird after losing half the crew. Bad decision, really.

I'm not sure why she didn't just set it a little later and actually do the Great Conspiracy...

(Ha, I have most of them in ebook, I think; I just haven't read them yet.)