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The Kindred

First in Wide Sky (2312)

The colony ship lost into the Sable Reach in a seam accident — the Ferren's ancestor.

In full

Lost around 2192 and made landfall on Ostry, where her people have lived for five generations. Her node-emitter was kept running for years afterward, carrying two generations of message out into a sky nobody was listening to: first a plea — to whoever opened the road: we are still here — and later, as their sun sickened, a warning added to it. Her old node-logs are the other half of the authenticated baseline, which makes a stranded ship's paperwork the most important document in the era.

Key facts

  • Colony ship lost in a seam accident ~2192; landfall on Ostry.
  • Her node-emitter transmitted for years — the four-year-old signal the Dawnward finds.
  • Two generations of message: a plea, then a warning.
  • Her node-logs are the rare authenticated record the proof rests on.

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