2026-09-29 · freighter
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ICV Kittiwake Dawn lost power, then heat, then everyone. A cascade fault dropped the bus in the middle of a long haul and the crew could not bring it back. They gathered in the warmest room and waited. The ship has been at minus sixty for a long time. Last log entry: Cpt. Okafor. Their trail runs through three rooms. Hook: Moreau's mother filed a claim, and the company told her the ship was never lost.
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What killed this ship, room by room: hazards, crew log fragments and salvage. Players get the map, you get this.
Cold. Frost on every surface. Nav plot frozen on the last fix. Somebody wrote the numbers on the glass.
Log fragment (Nav) "Sent the mayday on the last of the capacitor. If anyone heard, they have not said."
Trail 1/3 A note taped to the console, signed Okafor: "If you are reading this, check the drive section (10, upper deck) before you trust anything in the log."
Scram lever pulled and wired down so it stays pulled.
Hazard the bus is one bad contact from live. Bringing power back brings everything back, including whatever tripped it.
Salvage the fault. A single component, expensive, sabotaged. Fit a spare and the ship lives.
Something moved in here — recently. Bunks stripped. One is made, tight, the way the service teaches it.
Dark. Emergency lighting only. Every pod still docked. Nobody got out.
Log fragment (pod panel) pods checked at hour 40, all present. Cpt. code. Nobody launched.
Vacuum. Suit up. Shuttle still here, hatch open, seats empty.
Rack half empty. The sign-out sheet stops mid-line.
New filters stacked by the door, still in their wrap.
Log fragment (Tech) "Reclaim froze at hour 30. Melting ice on the heater for water. The heater is for people."
Manifest on the wall, half the lines crossed out in marker.
Salvage perishables, perfectly preserved. A fortune in frozen produce for anyone who can get it to port frozen.
Table set for six. Frost on the plates.
Hazard the crew, together, under every blanket aboard. They were breathing until quite recently.
Fuel gauges at zero. The log says they were not.
Trail 2/3 A second log hidden behind a panel, kept by Okafor. It disagrees with the official one about one thing, and that thing is in the escape pods (3, lower deck).
Connections:
- Ladder at column 8, row 1 → Lower deck
Empty cradle. Scorch marks.
Water reclaim tank split; the deck is ice.
Hazard frozen water reclaim. The tanks split; the ice is the room now.
These pods never launched either.
Trail 3/3 What Okafor's private log pointed at. It has been moved since the official log says this room was sealed, and only Cpt. Okafor knew.
One sample tray labelled and signed. The rest are blank.
Hazard frost on every surface, thick enough to hide the floor. Grates, drops and open hatches are all the same white.
Containers cut open, not unlocked.
Connections:
- Ladder at column 3, row 3 → Upper deck
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