“So Burn the Untamed Lands” is episode eight of season five of Andromeda.
Harper is showing Dylan and Rhade a new hand weapon, but what he’s interested in isn’t the, rather ramshackle, weapon, but the crystal which powers it. Harper believes that he’ll be able to use the crystal as a power source for the Andromeda Ascendant.
Dylan and Rhade go to Seefra 9 where the crystal is mined. Cutter, who runs the mines, uses his miners badly – they are ill from mining and are frequently killed. This has predictable results on Dylan – instead of buying the crystals, he decides to liberate the miners.
Meanwhile, Doyle heads to the Andromeda. Andromeda herself gets in a bit of a nit – presumably because Doyle’s base design comes from Rommie, but she isn’t Rommie.