You are passing through the Dabaran system on a routine trade mission when you are contacted by The Foundation. You are asked to proceed to a set of coordinates and investigate the disappearance of a missing ship carrying one of its researchers, a professor Siyab Dahiljaba.
For valuable information about what has happened to the ship, you will be paid a too large a sum to turn down 10,000 birr. If you can return the ship or the researcher, you will be paid double that.