This quest is given by Dr. Ega in wreckage of the blinding mist on planet Orlo.
It requires you to capture some snakes, and salvage equipment from the desert. Now that last part about salvaging equipment is a huge pain, and totally flawed.
It doesn't say what you need to salvage exactly, but that is fine, you'll figure it out when you explore the planet.
Normally you'd come across these parts that looks like little spaceships or shelters, and your curiosity would allow you to explore them, and that's when you would figure out that aha, these are the things I need to salvage, since you got a quest item for doing so.
Except it doesn't work that way. If you just run up to them, you get nothing, you have to either stick around for some time, or be standing on the exact spot to get the quest item (Like pixel perfect positioning). I still havn't figured out how it works, I just circle around the things I know gives the quest items, and after about 7+ laps around I'd randomly get it. Except the times I can't stick around since there is a king monster standing right there.
If there weren't guides to point out which parts you need to salvage, you'd never figure it out unless you were very lucky.
So yea, this quest need to be looked at, it's very frustrating to say at least.