# Derelict — FTV Winnow Verge — room key

FTV Winnow Verge is under quarantine, by its own crew, in the end by whoever was left. Something came aboard in a cargo lot and moved through the ship in days. The crew quarters are sealed. There are marks on the doors, from the inside.

Last log entry: Tech Moreau. Their trail runs through three rooms.

Hook: Two crew are missing and the pods are all here.

## Main deck

**1. Bridge**

Something moved in here — recently. Nav plot frozen on the last fix. Somebody wrote the numbers on the glass.
Log fragment (Cpt.): "Set the beacon to WARN OFF. If anyone docks anyway, they were warned."
Trail 1/3: A sound-powered handset hanging off its hook, the line still open to engineering (2). It needs no power, and someone at the other end kept talking long after anyone answered.

**2. Engineering**

Cold. Frost on every surface. Panels off, parts sorted on the deck by someone who ran out of time.
Trail 2/3: The other end of the line. Moreau's helmet sits under the handset, and on the bulkhead beside it, chalked in Moreau's hand, the next room: the crew quarters (8).

**3. Armoury**

Vacuum. Suit up. Rack half empty. The sign-out sheet stops mid-line.

**4. Hangar**

Shuttle still here, hatch open, seats empty.

**5. Lab**

One sample tray labelled and signed. The rest are blank.
Hazard: broken sample cases. The floor is wet and it is not water. It soaks through boots: anyone who walks through it rolls against the contagion.
Salvage: the doctor's notes, complete, on a data slate. They end mid-sentence.

**6. Cargo hold**

Manifest on the wall, half the lines crossed out in marker.
Hazard: bodies, arranged. Someone took care over this. Disturb them and a grey dust lifts into the air: anyone unfiltered rolls against the contagion.
Log fragment (Deckhand): "Lot 14 was breathing when we loaded it. Told the XO. XO said crates don't breathe."
Salvage: forty crates. Lot 14 is open. The others are worth a fortune to someone who does not ask where they came from.

**7. Escape pods**

Every pod still docked. Nobody got out.

**8. Crew quarters**

Lockers open. Whatever was worth taking has been taken.
Hazard: one bunk is still occupied and the occupant is still warm. They are calm, and they reach for the nearest hand: a touch is a roll against the contagion.
Log fragment (XO): "Kowalczyk is calm now. I have locked her in. I have told her it is for the fever."
Trail 3/3: Moreau's last call went here. The recorder clipped under the console is Tech Moreau's. It caught both ends of the call, and everything after, to the end of the last day.

**9. Drive section**

Cold. The torch has not fired in weeks.

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