Falstaff was a Drayman-class databank courier transport carrying weapons design specifications, troop movements, tactical maps and other information vital for the Terran Confederation and the Terran-Kilrathi War. While the Kilrathi attacked Goddard Colony, the ship was captured. Although databank couriers are rigged to blow when tampered with, Confed feared that the Kilrathi were familiar with such security measures and were taking it back to their command center so that Kilrathi techs could crack it. Maverick and Bossman were sent to find and destroy it in the Midgard system]].