Approach Log, Vosskar Reach

Job: hold the outer CR-5 approach shelf at Vosskar Reach for seventy-two hours and log what the charts still treat as rumor — anonymous spur stub confirmation on hip:31635, picket burn intervals on the run-in, transponder tallies on salvage traffic. One gate hop off Khesret. Passive sensors only. The desk wants a hull that won't dock the customs ring, won't pick fights with a Navy screening board, and won't ask why boring chart work pays at all.

Briefing: Clerk Elias Spur-Index at the Meridian Gate Chart Desk issues a Concord scout writ and points you at the approach log cluster — nav buoys, cold rack, two-person watch blister — where spur-registry uploads happen without an imperial stamp. Run passive arrays, timestamp picket patterns, confirm whether hip:31635 is a dead stub or a chart ghost, file the packet. Vosskar Reach is fleet-screened imperial ground; the empire is at peace with its allies and the picket is counting traffic, not shooting at it. LOW on the board because nothing ever happens on passive logging runs.

Clock: soft — seventy-two hour hold window, not a crisis. Terms: ₡5,500 gross, 10% desk fee, Rank 0 minimum. Honest money for honest boredom — until an imperial screening lieutenant hails your upload spike and offers two clean options: surrender the raw log for Navy review, or vacate the shelf within the hour. Internal security, not war. Your timestamps are the whole job, and someone else has decided they might be intelligence.