You are a known smuggler and even an outlaw in many systems, and you RARELY turn down a job offer if the price is right. As the game starts, you were just getting back from delivering a cargo of rare spices to the Ganteria colony, when your stardrive blew. You limped to the nearest outpost at sub-light speeds (the trip took 11 weeks), where you just landed. It is a small asteroid Liquid Mining Station near the center of the Horse Head Nebula. There is a crew checking your ship over.