"Hmm?" A moment later, Garth'zel's brain catches up. "Oh. Because it would have taken far too long to wait for things to get cleaned up properly, given basically the entire planet was a war zone. So I needed to go in and get what I was sent for despite all the toxic sludge. At least I did get help from someone in the form of something I could take to counter the effects of that garbage."

Sure, he'd had to go track the man down and have him dragged back to Sobrik since he had defected, but he also kept his word to let him go after, providing authorization for the man to take a shuttle out of there to go wherever he wanted. Which was likely a planet without an Imperial presence.