MOD:WCU:Menesch

According to Righteous Fire, Menesch is a former governor in another sector, who came to Gemini and started dealing in illegal sales of arms and ships to the pirates and retros. We are also told that at some point he starts getting Kat salthis for the retros. An in one of his last few breths he confesses to have stolen your gun, and managed to obtain ships from the Kats in exchange for promising them that the gun would not end in Confed hands. The story is believable if we assume RF is taking place near the end of the war, in 2669, NOT 2670 of course, at the time when the kats are winning the war so they don't need the gun in order to win; --just preventing the Confeds getting it is enough for them.

Menesch seems like a guy of little imagination, though:

Even Corrupt Confeds were unhappy to see Retros getting ships. Pirates they didn't mind so much. After all, the work of fighting pirates fell mostly to the private sector, so the whole thing was like collecting extra taxes by a roundabout way. Taxation through piracy is a sort of progressive tax, in that most pirates would choose big biz transports with pricier stuff, rather than attack the little guy transporting iron. And they are more manageable: They have bases and leaders that can be negotiated with through mobs and other contacts. Retros, on the other hand, attack everybody, increase the money confeds must spend on militias, and are unmanageable. Plus they are hateful idiots. And there's the fact of the well established, arms dealing mob boss: Roman Lynch. Lynch would complain to Confeds' selling ships to Menesch, and as the main customer of the Confeds in Decomissionings, he has clout. We can therefore assume that the reason Menesch is so desperate to get ships from the kats, is that he's lost his Confed supply. He again fails to see the possible consequences...

With a supply of kat ships, retros grow less reliant on talons and talon parts, whether new or used. This causes the second hand market prices for talons to plummet. That chokes Lynch, chokes the Confed Decommisioning suppliers, and, more importantly for Menesch, chokes off the funds feeding the Belisarius Group and Y-12. The latter authorize a large bounty on Menesch and Menesch is history.

Kroiz is a lot sharper than Menesch.