After you get the Unreliable up and running the quest Passage to Anywhere will start, which is frankly optional. It’s wise to do it, and starting it properly means you’ll get a chance to start this quest.
Fly the Unreliable to Groundbreaker and talk to Cpl. Leonard Wheeler to find out that your ship has been impounded by the Byzantium representative, Udom Bedford. Not a surprising development if you read through Hawthorne’s terminal on your ship.
(1 of 2) While talking to Udom Bedford on Groundbreaker, he’ll bring up the subject of Phineas.
While talking to Udom Bedford on Groundbreaker, he’ll bring up the subject of Phineas. (left), Even if you wanted to start the process of turning Phineas in, it seems the incompetent bureaucrat sold his Board seal to Gladys. (right)
Pay a visit to Udom Bedford in the Byzantium Embassy, which is along the northeastern end of the Promenade on the Groundbreaker. Getting him to release your ship from impound is a trivial matter, as he clearly imposed it just to force you - or rather Alex Hawthorne - to speak with him. Afterwards he’ll bring up Phineas Welles, and this quest will begin if you agree to turn in Phineas.
There’s only one small problem… Udom is an unscrupulous idiot, and sold his official seal to Gladys, a black market dealer on Groundbreaker. Without that seal he can’t send you to the proper authorities back on Byzantium. You know, people in a position to actually act on whatever information you care to divulge.
That being the case you’ll have to talk to this Gladys, who will sell you the seal for 8,000 Bits. It’s a hefty sum of cash, but don’t worry - she’s got a way for you to make money. A job offer, in other words. She intercepted a radio transmission from Roseway, an Auntie Cleo site on Terra 2 that was supposedly abandoned years ago. Whomever is there might just have something to hide, and secrets tend to have buyers. This starts the quest The Distress Signal, which is a side quest that leads you to a new area to explore, with quests to complete, enemies to kill and most importantly for the task at hand, Bits to earn.
(1 of 2) To get Udom’s seal back you’ll need to buy it from Gladys… for a whopping 8,000 Bits. To raise the necessary funds, Gladys will offer you the quest “The Distress Signal”.
To get Udom’s seal back you’ll need to buy it from Gladys… for a whopping 8,000 Bits. To raise the necessary funds, Gladys will offer you the quest “The Distress Signal”. (left), Recover Udom’s seal to finish “Balance Due” and continue with the quest “The Puppet Masters”. (right)
Whether you go to Roseway or not, you’ll need to raise the 8,000 Bits somehow. Once you do, buy back the Official Seal of Halcyon Holding Board from Gladys and return it to Udom Bedford to complete this quest and start The Puppet Masters. This not only nets you the Byzantium Navkey, which you’ll need to travel to Byzantium on Terra 2, but some Byzantium Travel Authorization Papers, which entitle you to land at Adjutant Akande’s Landing Pad.
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