Kidnapping of Princess Ruth Winton

The Kidnapping of Princess Ruth Winton was the attempted abduction of Princess Ruth Winton of Manticore by Masadan terrorists in the employ of Manpower Incorporated on the Erewhonese space station The Wages of Sin in 1919 PD.
== Prelude ==
Prior to the attempted abduction of Princess Ruth, Gideon Templeton and his organization were hired by Solarian officialsSpecifically Lieutenant Governor Ingemar Cassetti, who colluded with Jessica Stein, Hieronymus' daughter, to plan and execute the assassination. in the Maya Sector to assassinate Hieronymus Stein, the leader of the Renaissance Association. Stein's subsequent funeral on Erewhon would provide Templeton with the opportunity to attempt to abduct the princess, his half-sister.
In the Republic of Haven, Kevin Usher, Director of the Federal Investigative Agency, dispatched his wife Virginia and their friend Victor Cachat to attend the Stein funeral while secretly attempting to realign Erewhon with Haven rather than Manticore.
While on Manticore, Queen Elizabeth III quietly arranged for Anton Zilwicki to lead a semi-official delegation from Manticore to the funeral. Zilwicki's party would eventual include himself, Princess Ruth, his daughter BerryPrincess Ruth and Berry Zilwicki were altered through the use of nanotechnology to masquerade as each other., and noted scholar and former genetic slave W.E.B. Du Havel. ()
== Course of Kidnapping ==
The Wages of Sin was the chosen site for an attempt to kidnap Princess Ruth Winton of Manticore by Masadan terrorists. Gideon Templeton decided to kidnap his stepsister Ruth as his property.
During kidnaping Ruth Winton was confused by terrorists with Berry Zilwicki.
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All Masadans were killed during kidnaping attempt as a witnesses Capitan Luis Rozsak, SLN, charged the Stein's assasination.
== Collateral and Subsequent Actions ==
At he same time:
* Audubon Ballroom team captured in the Suds Emporium Masadan Flairty together with Manpower representatives Haicheng Ringstorff, George Lithgow and Unser Diem (killing two other Masadans as well),
* a group Masadans, of led by Hosea Kubler, seized Jessyk Combine's slaver ship Felicia III, killing part of her crew and threatening Erewhons with autodestruction of the ship in the neighborhood of The Wages of Sin; the slaver was boarded by Amazons and all terrorists were killed by Thandi Palane.
== References ==
Category:Masadan Deaths
Category:Torch