Follow the paper trail.
Work through recovered logs, sealed orders, star charts, and personal records. The investigation happens primarily with your paper materials.
The investigation
Everyone closed
the case.
You’re opening it.
In 2347, the colony ship Halcyon set out for a new world with 4,000 settlers aboard. It never arrived. The wreckage was found, the chief engineer was convicted of sabotage, and the galaxy mourned.
Forty-two years later, a salvage pilot picks up a faint transmission from deep space. It carries the Halcyon's identity code, and a desperate voice is asking for help.
You are the newest investigator at the Wayfarer Registry, an underfunded agency that tracks lost ships. Your handler hands you the case because no one upstairs expects you to solve it. But the evidence doesn't add up. The wreckage is too small. The crew manifest has been forged. And the powerful corporation that built the Halcyon seems very interested in what you find.
Over twelve months, you'll piece together recovered logs, sealed orders, star charts, and the diary of a fourteen-year-old girl who saw something she wasn't supposed to see. You'll learn who really chose to vanish, and why. You'll find out who in your own office can be trusted. And when the truth is finally in your hands, you'll make a choice that decides the fate of everyone aboard.
The ship isn't dead. Someone made sure the galaxy believed it was.
Now someone wants it found, and not everyone looking wants to save them.