In this sector, Earth Cargo Service freighters were frequently attacked, over a time period lasting years, by Nausicaan pirates. Travis Mayweather knew about the sector and the repeated attacks within it. One of the freighters which were assaulted in this area was the ECS Fortunate, which consequently sustained heavy damage, in 2151. When Enterprise NX-01 arrived to investigate the aftermath of the battle, the starship's crew found no other ships in the region. Despite subsequent onslaughts by the Nausicaans, Matthew Ryan, who was temporarily in command of the Fortunate, refused Enterprise's help, which his commanding officer, Captain Jackson Keene, reasoned was due to Ryan and others who had grown up on the freighter feeling that they had some special claim to ownership of this particular