2026-09-26 · station
Candlemas Station is still warm aft. The reactor tripped, the coolant loop failed a day later, and the engineer sealed the drive section with herself inside it. The rest of the crew waited at the mid-frame door for word. The word never came, and neither did the rescue. Last log entry: Cpt. Reyes. Their trail runs through three rooms. Hook: A salvage tug is inbound; its transponder says it has been inbound for three months.
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PNG and .dd2vtt (walls, doors and lights for Foundry, Roll20 and Owlbear Rodeo) and the GM key below. CC0. Made with Bulkhead's starship deck plan generator; generate your own, every derelict comes with a story.
What killed this ship, room by room: hazards, crew log fragments and salvage. Players get the map, you get this.
Traffic control dark. The customs desk still has a queue rope up.
Trail 2/3 Reyes got this far. One set of boot prints in the dust, heading for the lift lobby (1, ring deck), and a door code scratched into the frame.
Consoles dark. One chair is turned to face the door.
Log fragment (Cpt.) "Ordered the aft sections sealed. Lindqvist stayed behind the door. That was her call. I am writing it down so nobody says otherwise."
Trail 1/3 Cpt. Reyes's slate, screen cracked. The last entry: "Going to the central hub (1, hub deck). Back in ten." Nothing after it.
Something moved in here — recently. Manifest on the wall, half the lines crossed out in marker.
Salvage sealed reactor fuel canisters, intact, worth more than the hull. Warm to the touch.
Reactor cold. Tools laid out for a repair nobody finished.
Hazard coolant fog. Corrosive, heavier than air, pooled knee-deep. Suits last minutes, skin does not.
Salvage the spare coolant loop, still crated. Never fitted. Somebody will want to know why.
Autodoc stopped mid-cycle. The patient is not in it.
Log fragment (Dr.) "Dosages are past what the manual covers. Giving what I have to whoever asks. Nobody is asking anymore."
Connections:
- Lift at column 18, row 17 → Ring deck
- Stairs at column 19, row 17 → Ring deck
- Ladder at column 17, row 4 → Ring deck
Lift and stairs up to the hub.
Hazard deck plating hot enough to blister through boots. Something below is still cooking.
Trail 3/3 The code from the last room opens the locker here. Inside, Reyes's own recording of the last day. It is the first account aboard from someone who was there.
Dark. Emergency lighting only. Bunks stripped. One is made, tight, the way the service teaches it.
Cold. Frost on every surface. Lockers open. Whatever was worth taking has been taken.
Table set for 22. Frost on the plates.
Hazard the bulkhead door is welded shut from the far side. Cutting through takes time and light.
Log fragment (Cook) "Fed everyone at the mid-frame door. Eng. did not come forward for hers. Left it by the seal."
New filters stacked by the door, still in their wrap.
Hazard scrubbers running backwards. The air here is thick, sweet and wrong.
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
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