THE
OUTER RUN
Some routes are paid for. The rest is what the contractor owes the run.
NV Karl Vidar Pedersen. Eighteen years of commercial survey work for the Seam Navigation Group. Captain Bjørg Sandberg takes the four-stop contract. Four junctions. 120 days. Navigator discretion on the fourth stop.
The Erika gets the formal missions and the institutional archive. The Karl Vidar gets the fringe.
Parallel to The Drift
The Outer Run takes place during the same historical window as The Drift (2138–2180), but follows the commercial survey vessels rather than the institutional archive missions. You can read either series first. They stand alone.
While NV Erika Magnusdóttir carries out formal first-contact missions under ISA oversight, NV Karl Vidar Pedersen runs the commercial survey routes for the Seam Navigation Group. Different vessels. Different questions. Same forty-two years of human history at the edge of known space.