While Gevaudan was forced to use T^5 to design the ship, he was still charging 10% per Mongoose. So there is some form of crossover in that detail. Writer's license. The funds the Pilot-Astrogator earned were significantly less than the profit he made two months later on 4dT of "Super weapons radioactives". And I can produce the dice-roll logs to prove it.
But the story was an exercise at telling of a Patron encounter as Gev passed through Triad on his way Coreward to his home polity.
Thanks for reading this small window into the adventures of Gevaudan Cannagrrh.