As long as the IP is used, we'd quantify this as part of a 'series'. While preparing the mining facility on the small moon Cobalt Paradise, the small skeleton crew of the Outpost receives a distress ...

As a result of this, Major C. E. Breverly, commandant of the nearby cavalry outpost sends a scout to find prospector and Indian guide Ward Kinsman. Kinsman is secretly mining for gold near Bailey ...

For everyone who's still figuring it out.