A body was found (the hard way) and members of Brute Squad went to one of the orbiting space stations to make the deal. A radioactive emitter was hidden on the body that would mark anyone in a 20 meter radius once activated. The Grotens met with a group of Yiptak Trops and eventually the deception was discovered. A Tuskat Trop came out of hiding and started yelling at the Grotens - identifying himself as the source of the bounty. THEM, who had been monitoring the situation, activated the emitter and marked everyone in the room. Eventually the Grotens and Yiptaks starting fighting and the Tuskat fled. The members of THEM, including all surviving underlings - Kolum, Bob, Thrombosis, Hecate, Oaxaca, and Tapir, chased after the Tuskat. This Tuskat was extremely adept at stealth and if it weren't for the radioactive mark, he would have lost them easily. Eventually, after much chasing though-out the station; they were sure they had the Trop cornered.

They were all in a large room with a number of laboratory benches in it. There were three exits; two doors and a vent. The members of THEM had all the exits covered, but they still couldn't find the Trop. He was definitely there due to the radioactive mark that kept moving around. Eventually, Vasculus got fed up, went over to Bob and got him to torch the entire room. Bob complied. Soon the entire room and all members of THEM were in flames. One of the underlings - Oaxaca died in the inferno, but the rest of them survived and managed to put themselves out. The gamble worked. The Trop had been hiding behind one of the underlings trying to get open one of the doors. Burning, he panicked and was no match in combat with THEM.

The Trop's ship was found and, after a brief fight with the crew, they discovered a bit of the history of the late UGLLY. The ape-like beings that they were seen with were slaves and the inexhaustible money supply was due to the sale of these slaves. The species called themselves Chofnu. UGLLY has discovered the Chofnu home planet within a vast nebula and teamed up with the Kvankii-Lood Mafia to slavamize the entire planet. Because of the nebula, the outside galaxy had never discovered the planet. The inhabitants of the planet never ventured into space. Apparently, the populace had gone through a major catastrophe. They had reached the mass-computer information age and their calendar system had recently gone from a four digit number to a five digit number (year 9999 to year 10000). Their entire civilization had been highly computerized for over a thousand years and none of the systems could handle the five-digit date. (Can you tell the referee is a computer geek?) Their civilization fell to anarchy within days of the turn of the millennia. The Kvankii-Lood easily conquered the planet and started to gather slaves.

THEM relayed the coordinates to the Tundak Mafia. Unfortunately, it was found that the entire nebula was layered with high yield mines and no ship could get in. A quick trip in the EEE confirmed that there was no way in. However, an impressively large ship owned by the Tundak Mafia was blockading the area, making sure that the Kvankii-Lood couldn't get in either. Both Mafia's were in a stalemate.