# Derelict — ICV Saltmarsh — room key

ICV Saltmarsh went through a debris field that was not on the chart and came out the other side with holes in it. The air went in stages, one compartment at a time, and the crew moved forward ahead of it until there was no more forward. Six weeks, give or take.

Last log entry: Eng. Lindqvist. Their trail runs through three rooms.

Hook: A distress beacon is still running. It is not the ship's.

## Main deck

**1. Bridge**

Cold. Frost on every surface. Nav plot frozen on the last fix. Somebody wrote the numbers on the glass.
Hazard: floor buckled; the lower half of this room is a drop into the void.
Hazard: shattered viewport, edges razor-fine. Suit tears on contact.
Log fragment (Nav): "Debris field not on any chart. Cpt. says ride it out. We are riding it out."
Trail 3/3: Eng. Lindqvist is here, or what is left of them. The recorder on their suit is still running and covers the last day.

**2. Lab**

Vacuum. Suit up. One sample tray labelled and signed. The rest are blank.
Salvage: six suit batteries in a charging rack, all still holding charge. Worth more out here than anything on the manifest.

**3. Escape pods**

One cradle empty. The rest still docked, cold.
Log fragment (pod bay panel): one launch, 41 days ago, heading logged and then wiped by someone with the Cpt. code.
Trail 2/3: Lindqvist's other glove. Scratched into the bulkhead beside it at hand height: "THE BRIDGE. DON'T." That is the bridge (1).

**4. Engineering**

Scram lever pulled and wired down so it stays pulled.

**5. Crew quarters**

Lockers open. Whatever was worth taking has been taken.
Log fragment, handwritten: "If you find this, the pod took Reyes and the kid. Do not look for us in the hull."
Trail 1/3: A glove on the deck just inside the door, Lindqvist's by the name stitched in the cuff. The other one is in the escape pods (3).

**6. Armoury**

Rack half empty. The sign-out sheet stops mid-line.
Salvage: one rifle, no magazine, and a flare pistol with three flares.

**7. Drive section**

Fuel gauges at zero. The log says they were not.
Hazard: hull plate hanging by two rivets. Touch it and it goes, with whoever is holding it.

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