#ashfall station

A body is discovered inside a sealed maintenance shaft in Sector Twelve, and the report begins to vanish before the investigation can properly begin. The Shaft Beneath Sector Twelve The first call reached Ralen Orst during the late recovery cycle, while he was standing beneath a row of restored lights that shone too brightly across the lower maintenance office. The lamps had been replaced after…

A sealed Fleet detachment arrives after the blackout and begins asking questions no one on Ashfall is meant to answer. The Transport with No Insignia The sealed transport arrived during the first low-traffic cycle after the station-wide blackout, when Ashfall’s public lights had returned and most residents had begun the careful work of treating the darkness as another entry in maintenance…

When Ashfall Station fell into darkness, the sounds moving through its walls no longer belonged to failing machinery alone. When the Station Went Dark The evening cycle settled over Ashfall Station with the tired calm of a place that had carried strain for so long that strain itself had become part of the atmosphere. Along the habitation ring, food stalls lowered their shutters one by one,…

When a routine survey mission returned to Ashfall Station with its systems intact and its crew missing, the station was forced to confront the quiet possibility that something within its outer network had begun to remove people without leaving any trace. The Shuttle That Returned Empty The shuttle arrived at the edge of Ashfall Station on a schedule that had been filed, confirmed, and quietly…