I am prepping to run Racing to Ruin and am reading about the confrontation with Umargo. I am wondering, why the Eleder militia are absent from this encounter? Or Ivory Cross mercenaries working for the government or the Whaling Company?
In my game, I described a situation where there was a large angry mob surrounding the Whaling Company building. Zenj natives tended to support Umagro's actions while colonist tended to oppose him and many people were in between.
So the crowd was divided and tension was high. I had the Sargava guard trying to figure out what to do. Their leadership had not arrived on the scene, so the low level guards were not going to do anything. The Ivory cross in my game are allied with the Aspis (Rival Faction) and were not interfering.