Traveller/Awesome

The Oberlindes family of merchant princes, as described in the sourcebooks have a number of Crowning Moments of Awesome. In one instance they are hampered in an expedition by Vargr Space Pirates. So they buy a surplus Imperial 60,000 ton "cruiser" allegedly for salvage... and then bribe and manipulate several Imperial officials to have it 'accidentally' delivered fully intact and with weapons still mounted. They then immediately move it outside Imperial space so they cannot be charged with illegally owning a warship under Imperial law, give it the rather ironic name of Emissary, and send it through Vargr space, sneering at every corsair in the galaxy.

Another time Marc Oberlindes, The Patriarch, heard that his son had been imprisoned. So he hired a band of mercenaries to break him out.