CHE3000 and Philo joined the party at Xanthe.

The PCs are approached, once again by the zaal antiquities dealer Gesh Harthon, to transport an ancient statuette of the dolmyranth goddess Arthima. It is intended as a gift for a human xenoarcheologist acquaintance of Harthon’s, one Dr. Tarus Spek. Spek’s last known location was on a small civilian freighter bound for the Mindahi System by way of another system in the Coalsack Nebula. Harthon wants the PCs to take one of his personal ships, a small hyperspace personnel transport named Luxoth’s Wing, to catch up with his associate and deliver the statuette at either of those ports. They haggled the price to 3000 Cr up front, 8000 Cr on return of an undamaged Luxoth’s Wing, and 4000 Cr on return of a slightly more used Luxoth’s Wing.

En route they have found the stripped and graffiti-covered wreckage of the Toreador 86-XX fought a nest of vacspiders that had taken it over and looted anything that was left, inadvertently setting it into a wild spin off into space. Currently, they are headed toward the edge of the Sol System, charging the hyperdrive for the jump to the Coalsack Nebula.