First-Chart Nakhvar Watch

Job: first-chart recon of Nakhvar Watch — HIP 46769 on the Vossaran spine, three hops past Vosskar Reach and Vossar Prime, listed BLANK on the public registry. Run the standard scout protocol: gate ring geometry, berth capacity, passive sensor sweep, traffic pattern notes. Deliver a filed packet to Gate Cartography within ten days. ₡13,000 gross, Rank 1 minimum, civilian transponder required. No navy registry. No Concord flagged survey hull. They want outsiders because outsiders are deniable.

Briefing: Clerk Soren Gatemark hands you the writ off the Meridian Gate Ring cartography desk — sensor kit, logging appendix, the yellow BLANK tag on the wall behind him like a dare. Fly clean through imperial customs at Vosskar Reach, transit Vossar Prime, jump out to the dry spur. The chart says anonymous dry rock and automated mining pings. The ring may say something else entirely. Standard protocol on the tin. Security politics in the room.

Clock: ten-day scout window from writ issue. File a packet — full log, sanitized update, or honest refusal with reason — and the contract closes. Get your logs seized or start a treaty incident and the fee evaporates. Moderate threat: not a war zone, but an imperial watch-post that may decide your Concord writ is the problem. Mind the warden. Mind the dark window. Mind what you photograph.