The Deep Frontier
Junction-23 is the trap they cannot break. The ship will not survive.
ISV Resolute is dispatched to Junction-23 for what ISCA-TI describes as a routine survey extension. It is not routine. Multi-vessel engagement. The Resolute is lost in combat. Seven crew are killed. The survivors bring everyone else home in a lifeboat constructed from what remained. Marcus Cole retires. ISCA persuades him to return.
Era
2200 – 2201
Series
Book Three of The Long Watch
Price
Kindle Unlimited
Who you’ll meet
Artefacts from this book
The archive →In-universe records, blueprints, and documents drawn from The Deep Frontier — the institutional paper trail behind the story.
ISV Resolute — Loss Report: Junction-23
H. Whitfield
The first ship of her class, lost at the trap she could not break. Seven names in the casualty box. The survivors brought everyone else home.
Junction-23 — Lifeboat Log
H. Whitfield
The long way home in a craft never meant for the distance. Headcounts, rationing, and the steady countdown of consumables, kept by hand.
Architect-Residual Derelict — Survey Scan
K. Moran · Science Section
The derelict the Resolute found in the dark beyond Junction-23 is not a wreck of anything that was ever alive. It is what the Architects left when they stopped — and the survey that read it is the reason the Resolute II carries a weapon no human hand designed.