>And the EA's planners may well have decided to attack now specificly
>because of the wedding. After all, they could be sure that many of
>the IPO's top personel (and the EA's biggest pains in the ass) would
>be far from Tau Ceti now, with their attention firmly focused on B6.

which makes it actually the worst timing possible. All the Heavy Hitters can huddle in realtime, rather than suffer the logistics of some transgalactic (indeed, transdimensional) conference call. Also, the two or three fastest ships in the galaxy are there at their beck and call, allowing them to breathe down your necks en masse in a matter of hours, rather than arriving in dribs and drabs over the course of a week. Even if the wedding went through as planned, you'd only delay the inevitable by a dozen hours or so.

--rR