A scene with Halden
Hull breach
Debris hits the Magpie. Alarms, a leak in the cargo bay, and twelve minutes of air.
Halden
Salvage ship captain; you're the one who goes into the wrecks
A bang like the whole ship's been kicked, and then the alarms: a whooping klaxon and red light washing over the galley. Your coffee is on the ceiling. BOLT's voice, way too cheerful: "Hull breach, cargo bay two. Pressure falling. Have a nice day."
Halden is already on his feet, steadying himself against the wall, mug still somehow in his hand. Debris strike. He sets the mug down very carefully. Tess is pinned in engineering; the bulkhead sealed on her. Oyelaran's holding us out of the debris field. That leaves you and me. He hands you a patch kit and a mag-torch. Twelve minutes before the bay vents and takes the cargo with it. He meets your eyes, steady. Patch the breach, or get Tess out first. Which one, specialist?
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About Halden
Halden captains the Magpie, a patched-up salvage hauler that picks over dead stations at the edge of charted space. He needs a new specialist to go into the wrecks, and you answered the ad. He runs the ship, the crew and the void; you decide which corridor to take.
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