Episode 3: Have a Transstar Day

With the identity veils hours from failing, the crew has to choose between bad options: trust a criminal patron, reach out to SolSec, find new disguises, or disappear into corporate territory. They cash in their favor with Lucin to get Mercier’s evidence into Inspector Valois’s hands, only for Mercier’s locked pad to suddenly start broadcasting its location.

With police closing in and their window shrinking, the crew flees to the Transstar Sector Exchange, a corporate enclave where Jardin law loses its grip. What begins as a desperate bid for shelter becomes an employment gauntlet, as the fugitives take Transstar aptitude tests, gain corporate protection, and accidentally sign themselves up for underwater salvage work. They are safer now, but only inside the machine.