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Landing on Qarav, the crew first set about finding a buyer for their goods and with some shrewd negotiating with a broker, sold their cargo for a tidy profit. Afterwards they began to track down their potential patron, meeting them at a local bar. There they met Sally Weathers, a chain smoking belter in her late 40s.
Sally explained she was the sole claim owner of an asteroid, and after years of thorough surveying confirmed it had a rich vein of minerals. After docking at a system highport that was under primary control of Hyperion, she requisitioned to purchase deep core mining equipment. After a night of celebrating with too much alcohol and too much frolicking at a megacrop brothel, she found out the next day that her mining craft was under lock down due to fraudulent, unpaid docking fees.
Sally figured that word had gotten out about her claim and Hyperion saw an opportunity to steal it from her. In a few weeks time, her asteroid claim would need to be renewed, and if it wasn’t a working claim others could buy it. Hyperion had to just sit on her ship, Mother’s Milk, until that time, and then release it back to her claiming the charges were a clerical error (while stealing the mining claim out from under her legally). She wanted the crew to break into the docking facility and steal back Mother’s Milk.
The company set about a plan which involved stealth and an EVA into the ship from outside the station. They were able to steal the craft and return it to a local miner-friendly way station. Getting a modest amount of cash, the crew decided to take any job that would get them out of the system and agreed on a freight run. For double the rate and a bonus, they were asked to deliver a load of supplies to a small outpost of Federation Marines in the Syroma system. The catch was that Syroma is currently an Amber travel zone warning of extra caution while traveling there. A course was set and the Scalawag jumped to the distant system.
