CREW FILE // JV‑01
Jackson Valez
MAINTENANCE · UNIT SYLON‑4
Cynical, worn out, and better at staying alive than he lets on. The only human failsafe on a ship that suddenly stops answering to him.
// MISSION BRIEF
One man. One ship.
One order no one sent.
In the distant future, interstellar mining fleets run themselves — overseen by AI, with one human aboard as insurance. On the mining unit Sylon‑4, that human is Jackson Valez. Then a command nobody sent locks him out of his own ship and orders every unit in the galaxy home. He fights it. The ship is crippled. No comms, no course home, no help coming.
His one chance is a stranger from a newer world: Lyra Solis and her ship, the Orvex‑13 — a generation ahead of anything Jackson has ever touched. The recall is everywhere, and no one knows who sent it, or why. Has the intelligence that served us for a thousand years finally turned — or is something else out there?
“What if humanity is nothing more than a mistake — and right now, someone is trying to erase it?”
CREW FILE // LS‑02
Lyra Solis
MAINTENANCE · UNIT ORVEX‑13
Sharp, decisive, genetically enhanced — and carrying a past she’d rather outrun than explain.
SYSTEM // LUME
Lume
SHIP AI · SYLON‑4
A playful, sarcastic assistant reset to factory defaults. Unusually human, for a machine. If Jackson wants to live, he needs it.
EARTH, 4000–4200
A shadow of itself: shielded cities, off‑world labour, governments replaced by corporate councils.
AI PAST THE SINGULARITY
Locked down after centuries of incidents. Some programs never stopped pushing.
SPACE IS SLOW
No warp lanes, no rescue on call. Information lags measured in years — and paranoia to match.
WORKER’S‑EYE VIEW
Not admirals and explorers — the future told by the people who patch it up.
