Forge-Law Archive Slice, Pass-Forge

Job: quiet lift — copy one sealed temper-recipe / forge-law archive slice from Pass-Forge's law-vault annex and exfil it to Khesret. No republic writ. No foreman escort. Five hops out past Karth onto the same cold far edge of the frost republic the resupply and survey lanes use. This is data recovery on the tin: reach the archive, copy the targeted stack coordinates, hand the client a packet before the vault seal cycle rotates. No arena glory. No assay rig theatrics. Just a slice of forge-oath metal science that honor-law treats like scripture — and theft like feud fuel.

Briefing: Broker Vesk Bitter-Seal posts from a side booth at the Spire cold-berth freight hall and slides slice coordinates, not paper. You dock Pass-Forge Forge-Berth, spine-walk to the law-archive frost airlock, and work under Warden Grimna Vault-Braid's sight — glove temps logged, kenning oath read, every name near the seal viewport written down. Vesk calls it diaspora urgency for a cousin forge on Karth. Grimna asks who sent you without a writ. Brunna Frost-Braid hears archive traffic on the melt hall and knows master slices haven't left Threnn in a decade without foreman audit. The fee is honest because the risk is honor-law embargo, not dock cops.

Clock: eight-day vault cycle before the target stack locks for a quarter. Terms: ₡14,000 gross, 12% broker fee, Rank 1 minimum. Payment on packet delivery to Khesret. Outsider hull required — forge nepotism would bury the result either way. Mind the oath log. Mind the kenning seals. One client's wax may read republic-clean until you know what Bitter-Seal means.