# Derelict — Vantage Station — room key

Vantage Station took a micrometeoroid swarm broadside about six weeks ago. Half the hull is open to space, the rest is holding by habit. Crew of nine: three bodies aboard, one pod launched, the others unaccounted for.

Last log entry: Deckhand Moreau.

Hook: The salvage claim on this hull was filed two days ago by someone who has not been here.

## Hub deck

**1. Central hub**

Traffic control dark. The customs desk still has a queue rope up.

**2. Bridge**

Nav plot frozen on the last fix. Somebody wrote the numbers on the glass.
Log fragment (Nav): "Debris field not on any chart. Cpt. says ride it out. We are riding it out."

**3. Cargo hold**

Something moved in here — recently. Manifest on the wall, half the lines crossed out in marker.
Hazard: loose cargo drifting in vacuum. Anything not tied down moves when the station does.
Salvage: forty crates of machine parts, twelve of them worth carrying. One is marked with a shipping line that no longer exists.

**4. Engineering**

Dark. Emergency lighting only. Reactor cold. Tools laid out for a repair nobody finished.
Log fragment (Eng.): "Patched the aft seam twice. It will not hold a third time. Told her. She knows."

**5. Medbay**

Dark. Emergency lighting only. Battery light blinking. The last treatment is still on the screen.
Salvage: autodoc still charged. Two courses of trauma meds, one vial with the label scraped off.

Connections:
- Lift at column 16, row 15 → Ring deck
- Stairs at column 17, row 15 → Ring deck
- Ladder at column 15, row 2 → Ring deck

## Ring deck

**1. Lift lobby**

Cold. Frost on every surface. Lift and stairs up to the hub.
Hazard: hull plate hanging by two rivets. Touch it and it goes, with whoever is holding it.

**2. Crew quarters**

Cold. Frost on every surface. Lockers open. Whatever was worth taking went with the pods.

**3. Crew quarters**

Vacuum. Suit up. Lockers open. Whatever was worth taking went with the pods.

**4. Galley**

The coffee machine is still warm. The rations are gone.

**5. Life support**

Scrubbers dead. The air is whatever is left.
Hazard: cracked O2 line. Sparks here mean fire, then no fire, then nothing at all.
Log fragment (Tech): "Sealed sections 3 through 7. If anyone is in there, they are not answering the comm."

Connections:
- Lift at column 15, row 14 → Hub deck
- Stairs at column 16, row 14 → Hub deck
- Ladder at column 14, row 1 → Hub deck