About a month after her successful capture of the Helot's Shackle, Bria suggests to her superior officer, Pianat Torbul, that the fledgling Alliance should attack Ylesia, rescuing the slaves there and stealing the spice to help fund their rebellion. Torbul says he will consider it. In the Corporate Sector Han Solo is still with Jess, but is becoming restless. After freeing the outlaw tech Doc and Chewbacca from prison, he considers returning to Nar Shaddaa, but decides that he will at least head out to look for some action (profit) ... eventually.