The Osama capture thing is there for several reasons.
1) It allows the first four ladies to demonstrate just what 'wavium can do, for good or ill.
2) It gets me money to set up Universal Exports (via rewards).
3) With all the wave paranoia, I needed a way to allow Fen to stay on planet and set up the Freezones.
4) Do you really WANT someone like him to get their hands on Handwavium?
5) Putting him and his colegues out of the way has the (useful to the story) downside of allowing the 'Danes to deal with wave-tech more easily.
6) It hints to organised crime and terrorists that the future lays in space (another useful to the story affect).
That any good as reasons?
1) It allows the first four ladies to demonstrate just what 'wavium can do, for good or ill.
2) It gets me money to set up Universal Exports (via rewards).
3) With all the wave paranoia, I needed a way to allow Fen to stay on planet and set up the Freezones.
4) Do you really WANT someone like him to get their hands on Handwavium?
5) Putting him and his colegues out of the way has the (useful to the story) downside of allowing the 'Danes to deal with wave-tech more easily.
6) It hints to organised crime and terrorists that the future lays in space (another useful to the story affect).
That any good as reasons?