The Listening Moon
The Listening Moon is a small, tidally locked moon of Velanthi-IV; the long-baseline listening Station on its near side has spent four years studying the planet's surface emissions.
Rules Reference
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Aesthetic | outpost |
| Anchor System | VELANTHI-PRIME |
| Fold Bleed | medium |
| Population | ~80 in a long-baseline listening station |
| Role | satellite |
| Zone | Beyond |
Notes
Controlling Faction: Independent
Dangers: Long-baseline receivers pick up Fold-static too; analysts lose hours to it., Surface expeditions to the moon's far side go quiet for hours at a time, and the team has not yet explained the delay., The team is small; paranoia and isolation are doing the rest.
Hooks: The deep-array receiver has logged a signal that repeats every 11.7 hours; the team has not been able to establish its source direction., A Kess-Two rotation scientist has begun refusing surface-transport and living full-time on the moon., Drift Bazaar brokers are paying triple for any audio sample the station produces.
Lore: The Listening Moon is a small, tidally locked moon of Velanthi-IV; the long-baseline listening station on its near side has spent four years studying the planet's surface emissions. The team of eighty is funded by a consortium of three Core xenoscience foundations and a Helix gene-research grant. They are the closest legal humans to the planet's surface; they are not the only ones. The 11.7-hour signal - structured, repeating, on a band the team never calibrated to receive - has been logged for sixteen months. It is not coming from Velanthi-IV. It is not coming from anywhere the team's array can resolve. Dr. Yenna Ashgrove, a Kess-Two rotation scientist now stationed on the moon full-time, has sealed her personal log and only the team-lead holds the cipher. Three team members have made pilgrimages to a small instrument shed on the moon's far side. They come back. They do not, on return, explain where they went.
Notable: The 11.7-hour signal - structured, repeating, never localised., Dr. Yenna Ashgrove's sealed log - locked; only the team-lead holds the cipher., The Far-Side Shack - a half-buried instrument shed on the moon's far hemisphere where team members go and do not return for hours.