2026-10-28 · station
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Farthing Station is still warm at the core. The reactor tripped, the coolant loop failed a day later, and the engineer sealed the reactor ring with herself inside it. The rest of the crew waited at the spoke hatch for word. The word never came, and neither did the rescue. Last log entry: Deckhand Moreau. Their trail runs through three rooms. Hook: The core is stable now. Someone stabilised it, recently, and left.
Board this ship in Derelict, a free browser game: find out what happened and get back to the airlock before your air runs out.
Download: hub deck PNG · ring deck PNG · hub deck .dd2vtt · ring deck .dd2vtt · GM key (text) · editable file
Story sheet: derelict-farthing-station-hub-deck-story.png derelict-farthing-station-ring-deck-story.png the map with the story and every room beside it, one image per deck, to drop into a chat or print for the GM
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Free, CC0. The .dd2vtt carries walls, doors and 3 lights, for Foundry, Roll20 and Owlbear Rodeo. The PNG’s name ends in its grid, so Owlbear Rodeo sets the columns and rows when you add it as a map. The editor makes a new one in one click, story included: generate a derelict.
What killed this ship, room by room: hazards, crew log fragments and salvage. Players get the map, you get this.
Traffic control dark. The customs desk still has a queue rope up.
Manifest on the wall, half the lines crossed out in marker.
Salvage sealed reactor fuel canisters, intact, worth more than the hull. Warm to the touch.
Way in only across the breach. The way that led here went with the hull, so getting in means crossing open space.
Vacuum. Suit up. Autodoc stopped mid-cycle. The patient is not in it.
Log fragment (Dr.) "Dosages are past what the manual covers. Giving what I have to whoever asks. Nobody is asking anymore."
Dark. Emergency lighting only. Consoles dark. One chair is turned to face the door.
Log fragment (Cpt.) "Ordered the reactor ring sealed. Lindqvist stayed behind the door. That was her call. I am writing it down so nobody says otherwise."
Trail 3/3 The arrows stop here. Deckhand Moreau's recorder is wedged behind a pipe where nobody passing would see it. It holds the last day, start to finish.
Something moved in here — recently. Scram lever pulled and wired down so it stays pulled.
Hazard coolant fog. Corrosive, heavier than air, pooled knee-deep. Suits last minutes, skin does not.
Salvage the spare coolant loop, still crated. Never fitted. Somebody will want to know why.
Hazard the door is sealed, and the seal is still good. Breaking it takes time and noise, and lets out the heat behind it: roll for an encounter when they start.
Straps cut. Whatever was lashed here left in a hurry.
Way in only across the breach, like the Cargo hold (2, hub deck).
Connections:
- Lift at column 18, row 13 → Ring deck
- Stairs at column 19, row 13 → Ring deck
- Ladder at column 19, row 1 → Ring deck
Lift and stairs up to the hub.
Trail 1/3 Chalk marks on the door frame, Moreau's tally of the days. Below the last mark, an arrow and two words: "the lab (6, ring deck)".
Lockers open. Whatever was worth taking has been taken.
Hazard the bulkhead door is welded shut from the far side. Cutting through takes time, light and noise: roll for an encounter when they start.
Log fragment, on a bunk wall in marker "DAY 6. WARM AGAIN. DON'T OPEN THE RING."
Cold. Frost on every surface. All pods gone.
Bunks stripped. One is made, tight, the way the service teaches it.
Hazard deck plating hot enough to blister through boots. Something below is still cooking.
Battery light blinking. The last treatment is still on the screen.
Sample cases open. The freezer is warm.
Trail 2/3 More chalk. Moreau slept here at least one night: a bedroll, ration wrappers, and the same arrow, pointing to the bridge (4, hub deck).
Connections:
- Lift at column 19, row 14 → Hub deck
- Stairs at column 20, row 14 → Hub deck
- Ladder at column 20, row 2 → Hub deck
The demo is the whole editor and generator, free, and saves a PNG with a small watermark. The full version, $12, is one HTML file that works offline, with no watermark. It exports the .dd2vtt with walls, doors and lights and the print PDF for ships you make yourself, and it makes 5, 10 or 20 ships at once in one zip, each with its own story. Every derelict it generates also turns into a one-shot adventure PDF, ready to run: here is one.
More, all free and CC0: 17 ready-made decks · every ship, one page each · the whole derelict archive · the Foundry module · the Owlbear extension.
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