Once all the crew were aboard, the Black Swan disengaged from the Profiteer and scooped up the cargo while a single missile was enough to destroy the fighter, and the Swan made its escape as six more fighters were detected on the radar. Returning back to Drinax to claim their reward from Prince Richter, they discovered that he had left the port for destinations unknown and after selling their booty, they were encouraged by the King to make haste to follow the mysterious ship

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