You'll recall...
Foaly works for LEP but also designed the security system the Opal Koboi also bid on. So clearly there exists some contracting and also that internal favoritism is at work.
Commander Root is Rumsfeld and Condi Rice is Holly Short in this extended analogy.
The analogy already starts breaking down at that point.
;-)
You better have stocked several copies of those and put on. They'll go quick. But you know that already.