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.

Their search turns up a SolSec investigator being blocked by Social Solidarity, a strange mobile data courier hidden in the Hall’s plumbing, and a data broker named Lucin who offers them a risky but useful errand. By the end of the session, the crew has new wheels, secure comms, a deeper underworld contact, and explosive evidence that Mercier may have died over genetic research connected to impossible, almost psionic abilities.