# Derelict — FTV Rowan — room key

FTV Rowan misjumped. The drive fired with the nav plot half-loaded and the ship came out somewhere with no stars in the right places. The crew rationed, then argued, then stopped. The drive is cold. The plot is still half-loaded.

Last log entry: Cpl. Reyes. Their trail runs through three rooms.

Hook: The tally in the crew quarters is still being added to.

## Main deck

**1. Bridge**

Nav plot frozen on the last fix. Somebody wrote the numbers on the glass.
Hazard: the lights come on when you enter and go out behind you. There is no automation on this deck. Anyone who falls behind is alone in the dark: roll for an encounter.
Log fragment (Nav): "Plot says we are eleven light-years from where the plot says we are. Both readings agree with each other."
Salvage: the nav core, holding a jump plot no charts contain. Worth a career to the right astrogator.
Trail 2/3: More chalk. Reyes slept here at least one night: a bedroll, ration wrappers, and the same arrow, pointing to the crew quarters (2).

**2. Crew quarters**

Bunks stripped. One is made, tight, the way the service teaches it.
Hazard: a crewmember's tally scratched into every surface. Stare too long and you lose your own count. Anyone who reads it through loses an hour.
Log fragment (Cpl.): "Nobody sleeps. The stars are wrong and everyone checks them every hour to be sure."
Trail 3/3: The arrows stop here. Cpl. Reyes's recorder is wedged behind a pipe where nobody passing would see it. It holds the last day, start to finish.

**3. Cargo hold**

Dark. Emergency lighting only. Containers cut open, not unlocked.
Salvage: intact cargo, untouched; the crew were too disciplined, or too frightened, to open it.

**4. Drive section**

Something moved in here — recently. Fuel gauges at zero. The charge gauge is not.
Hazard: the drive core is cold but not empty. Charge is bleeding off as static; metal tools jump in your hand.
Log fragment (Eng.): "The core will fire once more. Once. Either we pick a direction or the ship does."
Trail 1/3: Chalk marks on the door frame, Reyes's tally of the days. Below the last mark, an arrow and two words: "the bridge (1)".

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