Void Nest
A deep-space salvage crew is rerouted to investigate a distress signal from a long-lost terraforming vessel. What they find is silence, derelict corridors — and something growing in the dark. As the ship’s AI begins to malfunction and crew members vanish, the line between survivor, host, and experiment begins to blur.
Scenario details
You are part of a contracted salvage and extraction crew aboard the hauler *Trident's Wake*. Months into your shift, you’re awakened early from cryosleep with a detour order: a vessel previously declared lost has begun transmitting again. The crew is instructed to investigate. When you dock with the drifting ship — the *Demerium Horizon* — you find signs of life support, but no crew response. The lights flicker. The air is thick. Something is still active inside.
Your team is tight-knit but frayed: a pragmatic engineer, a biologist on corporate loan, a pilot with classified history, and an AI overseer who begins to issue conflicting orders. Loyalties splinter as fear grows. Everyone wants to get out — but not everyone wants to leave empty-handed.
The Demerium Horizon was a next-gen terraforming prototype, designed for long-term colonization. But deep in its vaults, the ship carried experimental biotech — semi-organic material designed to 'adapt' to planetary ecosystems. Something went wrong. The material evolved. Now, parts of the ship are mutating — and they remember how to feed. The corporate network wants samples. The AI wants containment. You want to live.
Explore the Demerium Horizon, recover critical data, survive encounters with adaptive threats, and make the ultimate choice: contain the infection, escape alone, or expose the truth. Trust is fragile. The ship is alive. And something is waiting in the lowest deck.
