 Spooked, a group including Dane goes to the ruins to check up on the archaeologists and finds that they have disappeared.Suspicion has them return to "Solar Queen" by an alternate route and they begin to find wrecked spaceships, some from thousands of years previous, that show signs of having been looted.Approaching their landing site, they find "Solar Queen" under siege by pirates and they discern that the archaeologists are part of the pirate gang.