The disaster on Sigonia-IV left the planet in disarray, the IPC "attempted to help" when they arrived on the planet. Which turned out to be a huge hoax, taking hostages and slaves on the rather large spaceship, of the IPC amongst many people and other life forms was a young man, standing in line to get his identification number burned onto his neck Being forcefully taken by one of the guards and held in place for the worker with the hot iron