Wildcat Resupply, Deep Rise

Job: run a mining resupply from Khesret out to a wildcat claim called Deep Rise — two hops, one past Hardfell Core, down into a canyon on a rock with air that eats cheap seals. Cargo's the usual frontier lifeline: Extraction-Frame spares, smelter feed, a crate of oathplate, and fuel. The claim's a long way from anywhere and the buyer wants a hull that can thread a corrosive descent and land where the daylight quits. Good money for the trouble.

Briefing: Factor Korgan Charter-Bead books you out of the Hardfell Assay shell on Khesret — smooth, fair, every crate accounted for. You ride through Hardfell Core to Hesk, drop into the murk, and set down at Vondra Deep-Cut's claim, thirty years of one dwarf's stubbornness that finally hit ore. Hand over the supplies, get the resupply signed off, and you've closed the contract and seen a corner of real space the League doesn't bother to map. The claim crew are debt-clan and blunt and generous to anyone who flew their lifeline in through that sky.

Clock: firm. The factor wants the delivery logged inside the week — there's a filing window on his end, he says, and he's not wrong. Terms: ₡22,000 gross, 12% desk fee, Rank 2 minimum. Solid pay, a hard landing, a fresh frontier — and a factor who's very particular about exactly when the paperwork clears.