In case you aim for officialdom, you should be able to control your indies and their caps. With words, with love and then with guns - if you must. Being in charge for fairplay over Crete, I know how tough it is. Almost impossible.
Space is dangerous, but then... we can simply not log to play with Maltesa dudes. I guess you wouldn't be sad at all, but I hope I'm wrong.
EDIT: sorry, it was not an indie. My bad. My silly brain wants to believe he was not under Maltesa's command.