The trajectory was slowly altered to take the frigate as close as possible to Tregan, one of the moons that rotated around the planet. Within moments the two objects would seem to merge into one on any sensor displays that followed them and only the moon could be detected after. With the darkness of the moon's dark side surrounding the Corona and blended with the dark color of the vessel's hull. On sensor boards it would be as if nothing excited in that region of space.
After the passing of a single hour, a lone shuttle appeared on the opposite side of the moon. With its back to the moon and its front to the mustard-brown colored planet below, it would be all but invisible to sensors located out in space. The gray shuttle quickly touched the edge of the planet's atmosphere and passed through it easily, descending down towards one of the larger land masses.
This piece of land was situated over two hundred kilometers southwest from the main inhabited continent. It had been used, like the rest of the planet, as a junk yard for many decades. Thousands of ships and other forms of equipment called Belgaroth their resting place after years of use. Being close to the heavily populated core systems of the galaxy made the planet a convenient garbage dump for those systems. Countless pieces of useless or broken machinery had been sent to Belgaroth so that they wouldn't need to be dealt with on the other planets. Now the whole planet was covered with scrap and junk. It was this unmonitored dumping that had turned the planet's water supplies into seas of pollution.
However, what was one man's junk, was another man's treasure. Rob Stellar such a treasure hunter and had named Belgaroth to be the home of a massive recycling operation. There was enough scrap metal on the planet's surface to support a sizable construction operation, be it ships or countless other electronics that Stellar Enterprises sold around the galaxy. The metallic scrap that covered the whole planet would become its resource, one that was far cheaper to extract and process than raw materials.
Within three standard months Stellar Enterprises had established a foothold on the planet. It had one fully operational processing and smelting facility, which was already breaking down scrap metal located all around it and forming that scrap into a variety of new metallic sheets. Sheets that could taken to other planets and cut or stamped for desired applications. It was planed to move some of those capabilities to Belgaroth and have the planet, through Stellar Enterprises, export these new metals to the Core Systems for their construction needs.
As the shuttle descended towards it, Rob Stellar looked out of the viewport and studied the gray colored land below him. Occasionally spots or lines of redish brown broke the dull gray background and offered some visual contrast. During the time spent studying his companies piece of the planet, Rob was thinking about how to better expand the operations on Belgaroth and perhaps even bring the planet into the sphere of influence of Stellar Enterprises, much like he had with Mustafar. They could both profit together and establish many facilities all around the planet that would turn the scrap and junk into credits. At the same time the clearing away of these materials would make it possible to start depolluting the planet, much in the same way as was being accomplished on Anoath. Perhaps one day people living here would be able to swim in the massive oceans of the planet.
As these thoughts ran through his head, others formed between them. He did not know why at the moment, but he wished to see Cierra again. For some reason she was in his head more and more these days. There was something about her that reminded him of his late wife. A feeling he had not felt in a long time. Rob knew that Cierra had somewhat betrayed him earlier, but also knew that it had not been personal. Perhaps the woman was actually sorry as she had told him earlier.
Lost in thought, Rob sat back in his seat as the shuttle cleared the clouded and began to slow down as it neared the ground below. Close to the center of the land mass, a large hatch slid open and the shuttle passed through it. It traveled some distance down and than sideways before finally touching a solid surface.
They had arrived at the underground facility that had been designed to refit ship for parties that required secrecy. It was here in this new facility, in one of the many rooms, that Ishara's ships were being readied. Here he would wait till Cierra's and perhaps Ishara's arrival.
