The Level Up Mission
These families kept something that could track their inventories, so they'd detect if anyone stole something or made a non-sanctioned deal with any customer or smuggler like how it was happening now.
Instead of storing these in their inventories, they all had portable exterior storage devices. So, they needed someone to be present to receive them, and that was the lady nymph.
Hye kept tracking her activity, got to know about the deals she did so far. In the end, she took roughly one week to go around the entire place, visiting lots of sectors, and managed to collect a grand harvest for Hye.
The latter knew if he waited one month, he'd receive much more of these crystals, ones at higher grades on top of that. But he wanted to feel more secure and decided to arm up Lucas and his elites before doing anything else.
He didn't know any intel about what was going on, but he could already sniff gunpowder in the air.