Captains log: Unexpected escape from the Monkeys' Testicle Nebula

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".........full gear ahead!" Was the last order i managed to give before i passed out from the explosion in one of our gas containers - a common enough occurrence that might usually happen to freelance cargo ship owners like myself who rely on used gas containers and somewhat outdated gathering and storing equipment. Lucky enough it was the last container and our mechanics team was able to disconnect it from the rest of the containers and most importantly- our ship.
After the explosion and the imminent escape from the Monkeys' Testicle Nebula i woke up feeling a bit dizzy and lightheaded but thanks to our doctor and his medicine i recovered quickly and in a days time was ready to resume my duties as usual.
 Although we had lost one cargo container worth about 200 000 credits the remaining 14 containers were intact and ready to be trasported to a remote area of Solar system no 19. to a  planet which name i can't reveal here for the obvious reasons. Not many know about this place and those few who do don't want to talk about it that much.  It's the kind of place where you want to get in, do your business with the locals, reload the cargo, get some food supplies and water and then get the hell out. No sightseeing, no chit chat. Keep your eyes open and mouth shut and you'll be fine. That kind of place. You can't find this planet with ordinary equipment, like radars produced by certified producers won't detect it - you have to tweak them. The planet owners use a fairly complex alien technology to basically stealth the planet from radars and such. So it's like a firewall that protects your computer and if you want to access that computer or in our case a planet, then you need to know which frequency range to scan for and which "ports" you need to look for to be able to navigate safely to a planets range and then identify yourself, ask for permission to enter the airspace, get a landing permit- all the usual stuff.

Most of the planet is a barren desert landscape with huge canyons and a lot of sandstorms, forming the dunes and then destroying these the next day or perhaps next week- nothing stays the same here. 
It's owners use this barren desert as a hidden marketplace where most of the  unregulated commodities are bought and sold and traded.