They get a mail vid drop from a contact – known to wor k on the greyer side of the law:
A deal has come up, a mining crew has two heavy lift shuttles needing emerg repairs on a rock in the middle of nowhere. A Salvage ships is pretty much a repair ship, no? It isn’t? So? The pay-off is you get to keep one of the shuttles. And since you’ve been having issues lately moving big loads dirt-side, I thought of you!

The twist: the ‘miners’ are Alliance mutineers. They do need off that rock, but the shuttles are assault parasites, not civi-grade heavy lifters. And they don’t want anyone going about telling stories once thier ride is all fixed up.