The Island of Hyborælia "Get me a visual!" Automated narrow beam laser comm/beacon tower site on the island of Hyborælia (Frontier World 22, southern polar region). Terraforming has raised the mean temperature of this world's ocean considerably, however the sea here at the pole is still covered with a nasty slurry of ice, snow and water, making any attempt to land on its frozen surface precarious, at best. To that end, a rudimentary landing pad has been erected on a shallow slope at the base of one of its mountains. Transport to the beam projector site may be accomplished via aircar or jetpack, though the latter method is discouraged because of the unpredictability of wind gusts in this area. In the final days of the war, an Imperial courier starship was lost off the coast in a gale as it made its final approach to the landing strip. That's what you'll find in all the library databanks. What those will not tell you is that the starship was a scrip payroll courier for the Imperial Quartermaster's Office which had been diverted because of pirate activity in adjacent systems. It is unclear whether the vessel sank or was scuttled, but is is known to have gone down less than a kilometer offshore, reportedly with the loss of its entire crew. The relative low value of the ship contents was offset by a recovery effort of inversely high risk, so no salvage attempt was ever made. Then, just three months ago, a routine scout patrol intercepted an encoded message using the beacon's beam as a carrier. Security Branch decrypted it two weeks ago and discovered, to their great surprise, that the courier's payroll was not in scrip, but in gold and iridium bars, and that at least two survivors escaped the starship before it slipped beneath the ice. So, now here we are, tasked with locating and retrieving the missing bullion and the rescue or capture of the remaining survivors, if any are still alive on this remote, treasure island.