Ward-Snow: The Instrument Between

Mandate: Medical blockade markers and black-market runners surround Ward-Snow. Republic officials, relief crews, and local authority need corridor terms before sickness and smuggling feed each other. Route: Khesret → Sol → Alpha Centauri → Lacera → Karth → Pass-Forge → Ward-Snow. The clock closes before the settlement's oxygen-catalyst stock falls below five days. The crew is hired as a neutral hull, witnessed courier of drafts, and working mediation team. Passenger comfort is part of the trip; it is not the contract.

At White Corridor Parley Station, the clean problem gets teeth. The quarantine has a real medical basis and a corrupt exemption market. Lifting it outright is reckless; sealing it harder kills patients. The work is corridor law, inspection, and monitored relief. Every side has enough law to make a mess and enough standing to punish a lazy answer. The crew must hear the parties, protect the record, test side claims, and keep the table open when walking out would be easier.

Terms: ₡68,000 gross, 12% board cut, Rank 3, SEVERE threat. Full payment requires a witnessed, enforceable instrument and a clean return copy. Negotiate a timed medical corridor, neutral screening, runner amnesty for declared patients, and enforceable triggers for tightening or lifting the blockade. Nobody pays this kind of money for dropping off a diplomat and waving from the ramp.