A team of alien xenoarchaeologists led an expedition to the Serianan system shortly after a New Republic team of scouts had left with a load of statues they had discovered within a cave in one of the asteroids of the Serianan Belt. The alien team, unaffiliated with the New Republic, set about trying to decipher a set of runes in the belt and to tease out the history of the creation of the runes and the statues.
The alien scientists were careless about securing their find, and prospectors soon arrived hoping to exploit the Serianan Belt. A team of New Republic scouts soon arrived to follow up on their earlier discoveries, and the newcomers teamed up with the aliens to rebuff the prospectors.