Heading to Thebus starport to look for the Principled Profiteer, the crew asked around but without much luck. Sensing that there was an aslani on the station in a berth, they tooled up and under the false pretenses of selling spares, sent a cargo container with a smuggling compartment through to the target's berth where Al A'Bahmma jumped out and mowed down the aslani and after a brief questioning, the engineer Afrash was also killed. Sensing an opportunity, Halfnir and Bart

After gathering the crew, they smuggled in some weapons and headed back to the vault and after some negotiations the vault was opened, but contained mainly survival equipment. Some precious metals and machine parts provided a modest haul which was smuggled out with a truck back to the ship. Investigations into the fate of the feral aslani uncovered some empty cannisters near their previous fort, and it transpired that raiders in a ship bearing the symbol of a rising dawn had

The pirates prepared for the attack of the feral aslani, who proved themselves to be unnaturally strong and ferocious, quite unlike the usual aslani. The defence of the pallisade was going well until Dr Bogburp started indiscriminately spraying friend and foe alike with his SMG! After four townsfolk were mowed down and Halfnir horribly wounded, the townsfolk opened fire on Bogburp wounding him, but nearly as badly as when an incensed Halfnir fired a rifle into the trigger hap

Arriving in Drinax, the crew discovered that Peytr Valis' fleet was also making use of the King's starport, following Zhil's arrangement and they seemed poorly inclined towards the aslan, as King Oleb was walking with Prince Kasiyl. It turned out that a wand or key from centuries ago could open a vault somewhere in Paal, one jump away. After Bogburp worked out that their newly arrived crew member, T'ni was a psionic, and with Halfnir involved as well, it wasn't long before th