While in the Phylent system, Kelly Taylor recognised a freighter (GCTV-942-GE-00843#LBB) berthed outside Arlos starport as a ship belonging to Gloucester Enterprises. Its presence in the system (not least of all in imperial space at all) was unusual, as the firm had never been granted a trading permit to operate within Mitikas. The reason for its being there was never fully confirmed, although Kelly suspected that it was being used to ferry refugees out of the system and that it was possible that Aaron Taylor was somehow involved.

In December 2617, Kelly Taylor questioned her father as to the reason why the freighter had been in imperial space. He dodged the question, repeating the fact that Gloucester Enterprises had never been granted a license to trade within the empire and that it was likely that Kelly was seeing things.

Despite this, Gloucester Enterprise had had most of their vessels acquired by the Helios-Independent alliance, to ensure that as many people as possible could be evacuated from star systems bordering Mitikas, before Operation Sudarberg was set in motion. Aaron Taylor was quite aware of what was happening, but had been forbidden from speaking of it.