2026-11-11 · corvette
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ISV Heron went dark on a long haul when the main bus dropped and would not come back. The crew pulled every blanket aboard into the crew quarters and ran one heater off the battery. The battery lasted sixty hours. The cold has lasted longer. Last log entry: Eng. Kowalczyk. Their trail runs through three rooms. Hook: The heater in the crew quarters was switched off, not exhausted.
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: main deck PNG · main deck .dd2vtt · GM key (text) · editable file
Story sheet: derelict-isv-heron-main-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 and doors, and no lights (the power is dead), 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.
Vacuum. Suit up. Nav plot frozen on the last fix. Somebody wrote the numbers on the glass.
Hazard frost on every surface, thick enough to hide the floor. Grates, drops and open hatches are all the same white.
Log fragment (Nav) "Sent the mayday on the last of the capacitor. If anyone heard, they have not said."
Empty cradle. Scorch marks.
Panels off, parts sorted on the deck by someone who ran out of time.
Hazard the bus is one bad contact from live. Bringing power back brings everything back, including whatever tripped it, and a bare hand on the wrong contact takes a hard shock.
Log fragment (Eng.) "Bus dropped. Not the reactor — the reactor is fine. Something between the reactor and us said no."
Salvage the fault. A single component, expensive, sabotaged. Fit a spare and the ship lives.
Rack half empty. The sign-out sheet stops mid-line.
Trail 1/3 A sound-powered handset hanging off its hook, the line still open to the crew quarters (5). It needs no power, and someone at the other end kept talking long after anyone answered.
Bunks stripped. One is made, tight, the way the service teaches it.
Hazard the crew, together, under every blanket aboard. They were breathing until quite recently. Lifting the blankets lets the last pocket of air out: everyone here checks against the cold at once.
Log fragment, on a slate held in a frozen hand "hour 58. still here. tell Moreau's mother"
Trail 2/3 The other end of the line. Kowalczyk's helmet sits under the handset, and on the bulkhead beside it, chalked in Kowalczyk's hand, the next room: the lab (6).
One sample tray labelled and signed. The rest are blank.
Trail 3/3 Kowalczyk's last call went here. The recorder clipped under the console is Eng. Kowalczyk's. It caught both ends of the call, and everything after, to the end of the last day.
Fuel gauges at zero. The log says they were not.
Salvage a crew locker, still locked. A month's pay in hard chits and a photograph nobody is coming back for.
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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