A group of bounty hunters are in the city of Iritsa on Chazwa when they receive a comlink call from a mysterious person asking them to come to Landing Bay 29. When they arrive, they are approached by Rusha, a traveler from Eckless. She wants to hire the heroes to retrieve the Black Sphere from a local businessman named Hahz Fallone. She states he stole it from her world's treasury before he was driven off by the natives of Eckless. The heroes are cleared of charges in the deaths of Gil Korgan and Rusha, but find themselves indebted to a vicious crime lord.