by ScribeLoom

The Last Safe Orbit

A debris cascade has stranded the crews of Kestrel and Morrow, and rescue engineer Leena Rao has one damaged tug with too little fuel to reach both. Then updated tracking reveals that the approved rescue burn will carry Wayfarer straight through the next debris crossing. An industrial tether might offer another route—but when a controlled test contradicts her calculations, Leena must confront the habit that cost her an earlier mission: trusting the model more than the people watching it fail.

Content notes: Dark themes and violence · Intense peril and life-threatening emergencies · Grief connected to a past mission loss

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