The crew of the Kerkes put down right in the middle of Parker's III, a former masonite mining colony established by the Barking Corporation a couple hundred years ago before the sector became too dangerous with other alien traffic. A handful of traders and smugglers used what was left of the ghost town for minor repairs or hiding things for a cooling off period. No one placed any permanent claim on the rough planet because it was too far out to man anyone there to guard the claim. So, more often than not, it was an empty skeleton of the town it once was.
Juan decided he didn't want to just paint the outside of the ship. It would help, but a truly effective disguise would be to make it look like a completely different ship, and he knew just how to do that. Most deep space traders are
