Kairos Dark
Kairos Dark is a colony that went dark - the planet is real, the colony was real, the Helios Founding grant that paid for it is on file.
Rules Reference
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Aesthetic | ruin |
| Anchor System | NULL-MERIDIAN |
| Controlling Faction | none |
| Fold Bleed | high |
| Population | none |
| Role | satellite |
| Zone | Beyond |
Notes
Dangers: The colony's Kadiss network - never active, never activated - registers as live on Rim scanners; nobody can ping it., Sublight traffic past Kairos Dark reports instrument drift when within six hundred kilometres of the planet's night side., Anyone who has spent time on the surface will not speak about it; some will not return.
Hooks: The colony was registered to a Helios Founding grant eighty years ago; the grant was paid out, the colony went dark within four years, and no record of why exists in the open Helios file., The colony's last beacon ping - on a band that was decommissioned before the colony was founded - was logged by a Confederation listening post six years after the colony went dark., Day One has tried to land three times; the third attempt turned back at the orbit boundary, citing a quiet that is not silence.
Lore: Kairos Dark is a colony that went dark - the planet is real, the colony was real, the Helios Founding grant that paid for it is on file. Eighty years ago, four years after settlement, the colony stopped transmitting. The Helios file is sealed under a personnel-injury legal hold. A Confederation listening post logged a beacon ping from the colony six years after the dark - on a Kadiss band that was decommissioned before the colony was founded. Day One has tried to land three times; the third attempt turned back at the orbit boundary, citing a quiet that is not silence. Sublight traffic past the planet reports instrument drift when within six hundred kilometres of the night side. People who have been on the surface will not speak about it. Some do not return. The Empty Pad - a landing pad outside the colony perimeter - is perfectly maintained, the only well-kept thing on the planet, and has never been used by any human who can say so.
Notable: Helios Founding file 8-KAIROS, sealed under a personnel-injury legal hold., The Beacon That Should Not Be - a Kadiss-tagged signal on a band decommissioned before the colony's founding, logged six years post-dark., The Empty Pad - a landing pad outside the colony perimeter, perfectly maintained, never used by anyone who can say so.