Stardate 1570.4

Our stop over at Starbase 11 is over, and we're heading out on a resupply run to several deep space scientific outposts...

Supplemental: Dropping mining supplies and machine tools at outpost IX -- they're planning on building underground manufacturing sites...

Bet you didn't know this was another Dune reference did you -- the planet Ix was originally planet 9 (Roman numeral IX). So in another 7000 years or so, this small manufacturing outpost will be one of the premier manufacturing planets in the known universe.