Event
Rime's long watch
For 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; she says she doesn't know who cut the flame into the door.
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- followedThe Switch-OffThe years after the Ledger Wars' bankruptcy when receivers auctioned the cartels' communications relays line item by line item.
kept up atStation 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;
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
- 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