Place
Station Nine
Proposed nameRime'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; frost fills it white every night and it is scraped black every morning.
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Connected entries
onRimeAn 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.- one ofUnlisted relaysHand-rebuilt repeaters on dead masts, carried on no sector's tariff schedule and carrying anyone's traffic for nothing. Lit but dark on every ledger — a black flame.
- 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.
- links hereRime'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;
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