RUNNING DARK

The site reads artificial. The classification reads geological. Someone has to decide what stays.

NV Erika Magnusdóttir surveys Junction 22-C: a dead-civilization site, 80,000 years abandoned, classified by institutional order as a geological anomaly. The crew knows what they are mapping. The institutional record will say otherwise.

Officer Dáithí Mac Diarmada spends five days embedding the truth in a place the institution cannot erase.