The Truth About Cushgar
Written by
James H. Schmitz
Copyright 1950
Published in Astounding Science Fiction, November 1950. Collected in
While on a many-year crusade to learn what happened to her husband and son when the luxury space liner they had been on was attacked by space pirates, Zone Agent Zamman Tarradang-Pok has become an expert on tracking down pirates. Her latest mission takes her to the Cushgar Empire which she and other Zone Agents are secretly installing Vegan governors on all of its planets.
Fellow Zone Agents Pagadan and Grandma Wannatel play small parts.