Swenson, Dispatcher

A resourceful dispatcher joins a faltering interplanetary freight firm and confronts tangled schedules, regulatory fines, and a grounded ship whose cargo and prominent passenger threaten legal and political trouble. He improvises coded orders, reroutes and consolidates loads, manipulates rival companies through staged confrontations, and exploits unusual market demands to keep ships moving while skirting the Planetary Commerce Commission. The story satirizes postwar commercial bureaucracy and highlights practical cunning, opportunism, and chaotic logistics in a small carrier's struggle to survive in an expanded Solar economy.