# Derelict — ISV Juniper — room key

ISV Juniper 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. Medbay is sealed. There are marks on the doors, from the inside.

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

Hook: A buyer is already paying for Lot 14, sight unseen, and will pay more for silence.

## Main deck

**1. Bridge**

Consoles dark. One chair is turned to face the door.
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 (Cpt.): "Set the beacon to WARN OFF. If anyone docks anyway, they were warned."

**2. Armoury**

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

**3. 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.

**4. Medbay**

Battery light blinking. The last treatment is still on the screen.
Hazard: contagion. The isolation field failed with the power. Anyone who breathes here unfiltered rolls against it, and a failure is the fever that comes before the calm.
Log fragment (Dr.): "Fever, then the calm. The calm is the dangerous part. Adeyemi was fine at breakfast."
Salvage: full trauma kit, sealed, and a case of broad-spectrum antivirals that did not work.
Trail 2/3: The other end of the line. Reyes's helmet sits under the handset, and on the bulkhead beside it, chalked in Reyes's hand, the next room: the drive section (7).

**5. Engineering**

Panels off, parts sorted on the deck by someone who ran out of time.

**6. 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 1/3: A sound-powered handset hanging off its hook, the line still open to the medbay (4). It needs no power, and someone at the other end kept talking long after anyone answered.

**7. Drive section**

Cold. The torch has not fired in weeks.
Trail 3/3: Reyes's last call went here. The recorder clipped under the console is Tech Reyes's. It caught both ends of the call, and everything after, to the end of the last day.

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