When Meetra Surik arrived on the Ebon Hawk, the dock officer stored cargo—including programming spikes—in the hold, noting it could only be opened with explosives. He was surprised mining droids had repaired the ship despite many miners being in med-bay after droid-caused accidents. Off shift, he saw droids fixing port stabilizers, likely under orders from HK-50, posing as a protocol droid. However, the navicomputer was voice-locked, preventing takeoff. As accidents increased, an emergency lockdown began. The dock officer reached the dormitories and tried using a holo-transmitter to contact administration, but the console was cut off. Unable to break the seal, he failed to override the lockdown and sent weak distress signals beyond the asteroid field, hoping for rescue. By the time Surik awoke, toxic fumes had killed everyone in the facility.