Person
Juno Varga
Proposed nameKeeper of Station Nine: a miner who refused to leave when Rime was switched off and kept the long-range dish turning through ten years of unanswered calls. Now the first to answer anyone. She once answered a roll-call from a post that doesn't exist yet.
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keepsStation NineRime's post: a relay hut on the glacier, half-buried now, with a long-range dish on its roof. It transmitted for ten years with no answer. The flame is cut into the hut's steel door;- member ofThe LamplightersThe keepers of the unlisted relays' posts, one to a world. Their creed: a black flame gives no light, but someone keeps it burning.
- stoodRime's long watchFor ten years after the Switch-Off, Station Nine on Rime transmitted into the blizzards and nobody answered. Juno Varga kept the dish turning and the hut warm;
- answered an impossibleLamplighter roll-callEvery night each post checks in on 142.59 and signs off STILL LIT. A post that misses roll-call gets a call from the nearest keeper;
links hereMaren HoltKeeper of Greywater Light and the network's ears. She logs the Choir's songs (time, bearing, depth, phrase) and hears trouble first;
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When it happened
- The Switch-Off
Rime is switched off. Juno Varga refuses to leave, and Station Nine transmits into ten years of blizzards with no answer.
- The Switch-Off