Hot on the trail of the downed treasure ship, the band of pirates hunted down the planned route and happened across Hroal Irontooth and his fleet in Exe, who claimed to have an inside track on what was going down. They had two men on the inside, Salvesdes the marine and Pilot Henshaw, who were planning to jump the treasure ship into Hroal's clutches instead of its normal course, and Hroal offered them 10% if they helped, but the pirates countered with just the ship itself if

After some negotiations with the crew of the Bone Saw, the SDB was shot down leaving the Acrid system free of any threats. Most of the crew flew out from Acrid, leaving "Duke" Zhil in charge of the planet, travelling by way of Torpol to pick up Halfnir and Tex then onwards to Drinax, and discovering a stowaway in the form of a rude and elderly bwap called Dr Dr Bogburp. In Drinax, King Oleb seemed put out about the state of the Harrier and the missing pirate fleet, but was cl

The miners stormed the defensive barricades around the customs entrance nd after heavy casualties, all of the starport security were dead or dying, but a large number of miners also lost their lives in the attack. Next was the control centre and with Zhil's hacking skillz the doors into the enclave were soon opened and a further defence by starport marines met them, with frag grenades hurled on both sides and although wounds were taken by the pirates none of them proved too s