Moving to the planet Smithon next, Lord Karosa refuses to cooperate with Kamea, bitter about his son's incarceration at the IceBox and his daughter's death under Directorate rule. In exchange for Karosas's aid, the player destroys a dropship that serves as a smuggling vessel for weapons for the Directorate, and in the process capture Victoria Espinosa - Lord Espinosa's daughter and Kamea's cousin. Karosa decrypts the black box, which gives intel about an ancient Star League Defense Force (SLDF) outpost on the planet Artru.
