From publisher blurb:
The Razor mining corporation is a small corporation engaged in mining operations all over the Sonora sector. Razor has a few small fleets of belters working the asteroids across the sector. They also have strip mining operations on several worlds as well as excavations on moons on a number of backwater worlds.
One of their operations is an outpost on the third moon in the Nanilav system. Nanilav is an agricultural world known for it’s inexpensive produce. Traders visit the world regularly to pick up inexpensive vegetables to transport them off world for sale elsewhere. While the Nanilav world gets many visitors the moons do not. Most barely notice that the world has moons at all.
Razor has a license with the Yulii Federation which Nanilav is a member of. Their license allows the company to excavate this moon for iron ores. Razor provides processed metal to various shipbuilders in the sector. There are eight men at this facility who work for six month shifts before going on furlough or be rotated home.
Recently all contact with the outpost has been lost. The most recent reports from the outpost gave no indications of any kind of problem. The sudden lost of contact is a mystery. Mining yields from the facility lately have been a bit light. Quotas have barely been met. In previous months the miners had been hitting bonus yields consistently.
Charles Li, a low level supervisor in the company, contacts the travelers to discuss a proposition. He needs a team to visit the third moon in the Nanilav system and investigate. He wants certain questions answered.
What has happened at the outpost?
Are the miners safe? Are they alive? Dead? Missing?
Are there signs of some kind of struggle there?
Did someone attack the outpost?
Rescue anyone left alive.