About banking:Your personal and ship's bank accounts can be access through secure channels on the Galactic Infortmation Hub (referred to by most as 'the Info-Hub' or 'the Hub' for short). Being that banking is serious business, banks treat it as such. Few physical banks actually exist in the Galaxy, with most set up on Federated worlds or with a few, even rarer branches on secure space stations. Though the station you are on, the Astronomos, is fairly secure, its reputation for being a petri dish of various types of scum tends to scare away any of the banks from opening up here.
Most legitimate monetary transactions happen over secure Comm lines via the Hub.
Everyone manages to return to the ship in one piece, despite a few moments of rising tensions. After checking the ship's bank account to make sure Hieronymus kept his word, you find that the funds have been deposited as promised. It is decided that the sooner you depart from this station, the better.
After settling down and getting your new parts installed, the ship refueled and provisions stocked, the Eclipse heads off into the Black. With the new parts, fuel, and other items ordered, you still have a good chunk of change left over... but it won't last long. It's probably best to find a job now while you're still within Comm range of the Hub, and so you check over incoming job opportunities through legitimate and shady channels. There are three messages:
*Message one is from a man requesting a meeting to discuss obtaining a priceless artifact for him.
*Message two is a general call for salvage. Serviceable spaceship parts, medical supplies, and other goods retrieved from wreckage out in Fringe Space.
Though the Fringe isn't officially governed by the Federation, many of the wrecked merchant ships are registered with the Feds, and being caught stripping them is considered Theft of Federation Property. It isn't very common to encounter Federation ships out there, but it has been known to happen.
*Message three is actually a distress beacon that your ship's Comms picked up. It's only a few days old, though it would take a few more days to reach the ship throwing out the beacon.
A fourth option exists, though it's something you can always pursue at your leisure. Noa and River know something is up with Hieronymus Rosso. He's gained a position of power and weirdly high-tech defenses in his office far too quickly for someone of the stature he possessed when he hired you for your last job. It may bear investigating.
