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Colony Ship Kindred — Landfall Reconstruction

Not a wreck — a town. Five generations ago this hull came down where it came down, and the people inside it did the only sensible thing: they cut her open, moved into the pieces, and kept the instruments running. What the Survey found was a ship that had been carefully disassembled into a life, with one part deliberately left standing.

OPEN REACH SURVEY · CONTACT RECORD
RECONSTRUCTION KND-01 · SURVEYED WITH PERMISSION
STATUS · SETTLED STRUCTURE, NOT WRECKAGE
LANDFALL ~2192 · SURVEYED 2312 · 5 GENERATIONS
KINDRED — PRIMARY HULL, AS SETTLED SPINE INTACT · SYSTEMS STRIPPED FORWARD · LIVED IN CONTINUOUSLY KEEL 1 KEEL 2 KEEL 3 KEEL 4 FOUR KEELS — CUT AWAY, LIVED IN AND, IN 2312, FLOWN ONE LAST TIME NODE-EMITTER MAST — KEPT POWERED TWO GENERATIONS OF MESSAGE. SOMEBODY CLIMBED IT TO ADD THE SECOND. RECORD HOUSE THE SKY-RECORDS · FIVE HANDS, FOUR INKS UNAMENDED. A LIE WOULD HAVE BEEN TIDIER. HUMAN SCALE THEY DID NOT CRASH HERE AND WAIT. THEY LANDED HERE AND LIVED. AND THEY KEPT ONE THING TRANSMITTING, FOR NOBODY, FOR A HUNDRED AND TWENTY YEARS.
HULL
TypeColony, generation
Lost~2192
LandfallOstry
ConditionSettled, worked
KEELS
Original4 + spares
Cut awayAll
PurposeDwellings
Refit 2312Flown again
EMITTER
MastStanding
PoweredContinuously
Message AThe plea
Message BThe warning
RECORD
Node-logsIntact
ProvenanceAnchored
Sky-recordContinuous
AmendedNever
SUBJECT
COLONY SHIP KINDRED
SHEET
1 OF 1
REV
A — 2312
SCALE
N.T.S.