Nyx selects the available-contracts icon. The terminal replaces its pulsing symbols with a local feed, blue text scrolling beneath a station map marked FREIGHT RING.
Most postings show routine salvage, escort, or repair work. One entry sits near the top with a payout far larger than the others, but its target profile contains almost no usable data.
Nyx
There. Fresh listing, posted less than three minutes ago. It requests mechanical expertise near the freight ring and offers enough credits to justify the risk.
The contract expands: PRIORITY RECOVERY, CLIENT ANONYMOUS, TARGET DATA LIMITED. A service-bay access code appears beside the acceptance prompt, then flickers as the station feed refreshes.
Nyx
It may vanish if nobody claims it soon. Sparse data usually means the client is hiding something, the station is censoring something, or both.
kiro
The access code is already degrading.
Nyx remains beside the terminal, while the ship systems continue their quiet diagnostics around them. The contract waits on-screen, its acceptance window counting down without announcing a deadline.
✓ Quest Accepted
Verify the priority recovery contract