Quota 8

A delivery confirmation arrived from Quartermaster during Gamma shift. The fourteen items from the procurement submission — dispatch confirmed. Estimated arrival: two Decas from date of submission.

I asked Echo about the sensor modules.

No revised delivery window. Status: pending.

I noted the confirmation and closed the queue. Receipt will need to be acknowledged at Bay C. Transfer to the hangar within the next Deca.

On the way out of Hub 17 I passed the east corridor productivity board. Nexus Bravo, eleven points behind Auris.

The morning allocation window in the Level 4 canteen runs for eighteen Blokke before transitioning to midshift. I went at the start of Alpha shift. Eleven people in the room. I recognized most of them — faces, not designations. I took a tray and sat at the far end of the second row.

Two tables forward, a group of three: a senior shift supervisor I recognized from Section Logistics — broad, grey at the temples — and two loading crew from Corridor C. Their conversation carried.

The index. The Deca reset. The gap between second and third.

We are seven points clear. That sounds comfortable until you remember it resets in six Decas and the Auris corridor has been running thirty percent above projection for two cycles.

One of the loading crew said something I did not catch.

Quota 8 was twelve points clear. Three Decas before the reclassification.

No one said anything after that. I finished the allocation and left before midshift.

I am not certain what reclassification means in practice.

I took the tram to Station Alpha after the allocation.

The staging area in Bay 7 was empty. The first delivery is scheduled for the end of the Deca. I worked through the equipment list against the floor area — which items need to be accessible during the first maintenance window, which can go to the upper shelving.

I asked Echo for a revised maintenance schedule on the ship.

No update on record. Maintenance cycle status: unchanged.

The scan array modules will go on the upper shelving regardless of when they arrive. I noted that and closed the list.

The maintenance crew was still on the ship. I could hear them from the cargo prep zone.