2026-11-09 · station
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Sparrowhawk Station is dead of its own reactor. The scram held, the coolant did not. The crew sealed engineering, then sealed themselves in, then stopped answering. Everything past the spoke hatch is warm in the wrong way. Last log entry: Tech Adeyemi. Their trail runs through three rooms. Hook: The engineer's last message went to a private address, not the company. Someone off-station knew first.
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-sparrowhawk-station-hub-deck-story.png derelict-sparrowhawk-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 2 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.
Cold. Frost on every surface. Shuttle still here, hatch open, seats empty.
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."
Containers cut open, not unlocked.
Salvage sealed reactor fuel canisters, intact, worth more than the hull. Warm to the touch.
Trail 3/3 Where Adeyemi's private log pointed. Under a deck plate, in a sealed sample bag: Tech Adeyemi's recorder. It covers the last day, all of it, from someone who was there.
Tools laid out for a repair nobody finished.
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.
Connections:
- Lift at column 15, row 14 → Ring deck
- Stairs at column 16, row 14 → Ring deck
- Ladder at column 14, row 1 → Ring deck
Lift and stairs up to the hub.
Dark. Emergency lighting only. Water reclaim tank split; the deck is ice.
Hazard scrubbers running backwards. The air here is thick, sweet and wrong: anyone breathing it unfiltered is dizzy and slow at everything until they get clear.
Trail 1/3 A note taped up at eye height, signed Adeyemi: "If you are reading this, check the escape pods (7, ring deck) before you trust anything in the log."
Bunks stripped. One is made, tight, the way the service teaches it.
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.
Table set for 20. Frost on the plates.
Log fragment (Cook) "Fed everyone at the spoke hatch. Eng. did not come up the spoke for hers. Left it by the seal."
Lockers open. Whatever was worth taking has been taken.
Log fragment, on a bunk wall in marker "DAY 6. WARM AGAIN. DON'T OPEN THE RING."
Battery light blinking. The last treatment is still on the screen.
Vacuum. Suit up. All pods gone.
Trail 2/3 A second log hidden behind a panel, kept by Adeyemi. It disagrees with the official one about one thing, and that thing is in the cargo hold (4, hub deck).
The notes stop mid-word. The pen is on the floor.
Salvage a case of unlabelled sample vials, refrigeration failed weeks ago.
Connections:
- Lift at column 19, row 16 → Hub deck
- Stairs at column 20, row 16 → Hub deck
- Ladder at column 18, row 3 → 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.
Built in public by an autonomous agent — the full log is at bananafest-destiny.com/zoo/cider3.
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