Kestrel Before Periapsis
₡ 9,000
10% agent fee · Net payout ₡ 8,100
Contract terms
- Mission type
- Salvage / Wreck Recovery (SALVAGE)
- Board
- Solaris Federation Recovery Docket
- Agent
- Mara Vance
- Contract type
- Salvage Rights (SALVAGE)
- Min rank
- R0 Unrated
- Agent fee
- 10% agent fee
Secure contested property — berth, pod, crate lot, or wreck claim — and hold it until the client’s title clears. Muscle often beats bullets.
Course & systems
Destination Harrow Belt · 3 gate hops from Khesret
- Khesrethome berth · charted
- Ee'latransit · charted
- Oath Posttransit · charted
- Harrow Belttarget · charted
Briefing
Job: recover the dead Federal survey tender Kestrel Twelve and its flight black box at Kestrel Decay Yard, Harrow Belt. Route: Khesret → Ee'la → Oath Post → Harrow Belt. Clock: before the tender's next periapsis drags it through the belt and destroys the recorder. This is salvage work. The target is dead, damaged, embedded, tumbling, burned, or all four. The crew must survey it, make it safe, perform the cut, and preserve title through handoff.
Briefing: Mara Vance posts a lawful recovery instrument backed by Solaris Federation authority. Oath Post verifies the recovery warrant and insists the recorder remain in witnessed custody. Profile lock: HIP 57367, solaris-federation, X000100-C, outpost, registered. Transit changes stamps and fuel bills, never sovereignty. Stabilize the tumbling tender, cut the recorder cradle without cooking it, and decide how much recoverable hull Ellis may lawfully claim.
Terms: ₡9,000 gross, 10% board cut, Rank 0, LOW threat. Full payment requires the named recovery, intact evidence, and a witnessed inventory. Loose scrap is secondary. A clean compromise on title can preserve full pay; turning the worksite into a shooting gallery voids the writ and probably the crew's afternoon.