You know how he really made his money?
How?
Gangster kickbacks and worse?  
Primero Meach, we've received an urgent warning and a vidstream clip from one of our peripheral scouts, he said to his commander. But the transmission cut off.
 
Look at them all! squawked Quinto Wilby as he scanned images from the outlying sensor network. The low-ranking officer stood with other soldiers at banks of instrument panels inside a domed building. Omnius never sent anything like this before.
 
Vannibal Meach, the short but loud-voiced primero of the Salusan Militia, stood in the control center of the planet's defenses, coolly absorbing the flow of information. Our last report from the perimeter is hours old due to signal lag. By now they've engaged our pickets, and they'll try to get closer. They'll fail, of course. Though this was his first warning of the impending invasion, he reacted as if he had expected the machines to arrive any day!