FIRST RUN

Six minutes inside a destabilised junction. The cabin came back. The officer did not.

NV Erika Magnusdóttir arrives at Junction 14-A on a routine survey. The system reads empty until the harmonic array catches a return signal at its own broadcast frequency.

Three weeks later, a routine pulse-test pushes the boundary past tolerance. First Communications Officer Reidar Halvorsen is captured in the destabilisation event. The cabin is recovered four minutes later. Reidar is not in it.