Institution
Lamplighter roll-call
Every 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; one that misses the call gets a visit, which keepers describe as going to see about a relay.
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Connected entries
- held byThe LamplightersThe keepers of the unlisted relays' posts, one to a world. Their creed: a black flame gives no light, but someone keeps it burning.
borrows sign-off ofThe burn-inBLACKFLAME's emblem, named for phosphor-screen burn-in: a solid black flame with a relay mast cut through it in negative space and a dark halo that drinks the glow, inside a phosphor-green…
links hereJuno VargaKeeper 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.
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When it happened
- Present
The Lamplighters keep the posts on the worlds of the Drift, checking in on 142.59 every night with STILL LIT and trading parts and favours, while VECTOR keeps a line open to every post.
- Present