We completed unloading operations at Colonia today. The holds were finally cleared of the expedition’s mined reserves, a year of patient extraction converted into several hundred million credits across the local markets.
There is a particular satisfaction in seeing deep-space work become something tangible again: manifests closed, cargo decks empty, accounts reconciled and crew shares recorded without dispute. The expedition asked for endurance. Today it paid some of that debt back.
With the trade work complete, attention has already turned toward the return route to the Bubble. Colonia has been a welcome threshold after so long beyond regular lanes, but the carrier was not built to remain at thresholds. We begin preparing to cross the dark again.