Place
Rime
An ice moon mined until the Switch-Off, when its ore contracts went to a receiver, its relay found no buyer, and the crews left on the last paid transport. Ice-crawlers still run, ice-foxes den in the lee of the hut, the aurora hangs overhead, and Frostbacks move under the glacier.
Lanes
Connected entries
- inThe DriftA belt of worn settled systems: orbital stations, half-terraformed colonies, and sprawl-yards linked by slow travel, local law, repair culture, and work for hire.
- switched off inThe Switch-OffThe years after the Ledger Wars' bankruptcy when receivers auctioned the cartels' communications relays line item by line item.
links hereFrostbacksColossal creatures under Rime's glacier. Nobody has seen more of one than a shadow moving under the ice.- links hereStation 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;
On the timeline
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