"He lifted a bunch of money off the magistrate of this little moon way out on the Rim, and when he was taking off, his ship took a hit and started going down. Had to jet the crates with the money in it so he'd stay skybound. They landed on this town," he makes a flopping gesture with one hand, "and the poor kids thought he'd done it intentionally, was trying to 'liberate the mudders' or something like that. Got a statue put up in his honour and everything."

Wash makes a face. "And a song. They even wrote a song about it. I need to find some backwater moon that'll write songs about me."