Freefall 3: Death Ray Byproducts

[sihnfahl]

Someone else has put a lot of energy into infrastructure, and the ship is there to provide the engine and the oversight to turn that into a cargo delivery.

Not just the cargo. Sam as well. He's, ah, going as an 'expert' in ... well, stealing.

I mean, theoretically, they could use an unmanned cargo ship. Lob the cargo into orbit, catch it with a space tug, then send it to a trajectory that the station could receive it with their own tug.