"The Aegis are what Jupiter would call interstellar peacekeepers. They have no allegiance to a given Entitled House. Stinger's the Aegis Marshall on Earth, and an old friend. We were in the Legion together as skyjackers. He owes Jupiter, and me, and he likes her. That should be enough to keep him near her. The Aegis have a good impression of her, too, and the law's on her side."