Nebula Refugees

The "refugees" were a group of people that the crew met on board the starliner Fortune's Favor within the @oran, escaping from some unknown disaster.
They had been in possession of some kind of "holy relic" that is said to ward off a cybernetic plague. Perhaps this was what they were fleeing from? But the relic has been taken by the Oath Breakers pirates, who raided the Fortune before retreating back to their hideout .