The Yorktown visits the remote Annexari prison colony of Oltenia III, which lost contact with the Annexari following the outbreak of the Civil War. It’s soon discovered that, in the absence of authority, a vast dilithium deposit was uncovered beneath the planet’s surface, prompting the prisoners to revolt, kill the wardens, and set up a mining community to harvest these resources. Their despotic leader—a mentally unstable man who was sent away by the Moldoviț Regime some 30 years ago for mass murder, makes clear that the prisoners consider Oltenia III to be their planet now, and wants a 100% share of the profits reaped from the sale of Dilithium. Unfortunately, in order to be recognized by the Galactic Dilithium Trade Authority, they must declare themselves independent of the Provisional Government—and, as it would stand to reason, the Provisional Government is unwilling to grant full sovereignty to a mass murder. Instead, they issue their own orders to the crew of the Yorktown: bring the felons in to stand trial, or they’ll do it themselves- violently.