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SYS-12 — Dead-Star System Survey

A survey ship's chart of a system that has already ended. The primary is a guttering remnant; the worlds are airless rock; and the inner field is full of dead ships that were opened, stripped, and left — every one of them, in the same patient way. SYS-12 is a survey catalogue code, nothing more. What the chart records is a place where something thorough has already been and gone.

ISCA-FC · OFFICE OF SURVEY
CHART FC-SV-012 / SHT 1 OF 1 · SYSTEM PLOT · FAR POCKET
SURVEY · ISV ENDURANCE · EX-01
FIGURES IN-WORLD ESTIMATE · N.T.S. · PROVISIONAL
PRIMARY GUTTERING TERMINAL REMNANT · NEGATIVE-LUMINOSITY ROCKY WORLD I · AIRLESS ROCKY WORLD II + CRATERED MOONS DERELICT FIELD ANCIENT HULLS · ENTERED · STRIPPED · EMPTIED — SYSTEMATICALLY (incl. DER-17) CHOKEPOINT PLATFORM PLAT-CHOKEPOINT-01 · INACTIVE · HOLDS THE ONLY CONSTRAINED CORRIDOR TRANSIT CORRIDOR (CONSTRAINED) SYSTEM PLOT · NOT TO SCALE · BODIES + DERELICT FIELD + CORRIDOR AS OBSERVED NOTE · WHO STRIPPED THE FIELD, AND WHEN, IS NOT ON THIS CHART. THE PATTERN IS UNIFORM. THE WORK IS OLD. FILED.
PRIMARY
TYPETERMINAL REMNANT
OUTPUTGUTTERING
STATEDYING
NOTEWOUND-SHADOW
BODIES
WORLDS≥ 2 · AIRLESS
MOONSSEVERAL · CRATERED
ATMOSNONE
LIFENONE FOUND
DERELICT FIELD
HULLSMANY · ANCIENT
STATESTRIPPED · EMPTY
PATTERNSYSTEMATIC
CATALOGUEDincl. DER-17
SURVEY
CODESYS-12
BYISV ENDURANCE
CORRIDOR1 · CONSTRAINED
STATUSFILED
SUBJECT
SYS-12 · DEAD-STAR SYSTEM · FAR POCKET SURVEY
CHART
FC-SV-012 / 1
SCALE
N.T.S.
SURVEY
EX-01
POCKET
FAR
STATUS
FILED

A survey ship catalogues what it finds and moves on. The chart records a dying sun, some bare rock, and a field of ships that were taken apart with a care that has no hurry in it. The note at the bottom is the only opinion on the sheet, and it is filed, not raised. Out here the difference between a graveyard and a warning is whether anyone is left to read it.