Tide Coffin
Tide Coffin is where Pelagic Verge puts its dead machinery.
Rules Reference
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Aesthetic | ruin |
| Anchor System | PELAGIC-VERGE |
| Fold Bleed | high |
| Population | 0 |
| Role | satellite |
| Zone | Rim |
Notes
Controlling Faction: Independent
Dangers: Wreck field navigation is by hand; auto-nav and the beacon both lie at this depth, and the wrong current carries a sub into a pressure zone., The Fold-touched hulls attract fauna; deep fauna are smarter than surface fauna and remember you., Anything that comes back up from the Coffin comes back changed; the colony's chaplains read the changes off the divers' dive logs.
Hooks: Find the grav-plates of a deep-diver sub that went down at the Coffin last season and bring back the nav-chair intact., A buoy-station cartographer will pay well for a tide-cycle map of the wreck field; the chart she wants has not been made yet., A Confed assessor wants an independent count of how many hulls are down there before renewing the buoy-chain charter.
Lore: Tide Coffin is where Pelagic Verge puts its dead machinery. The pressure trench is a natural collection point; anything that sinks in the archipelago eventually ends up here, including the submersibles of deep-divers who did not come back, the smugglers' crates that the buoy-station chain does not want to know about, and the warships that the colony's history politely forgets. The Coffin is therefore both a cemetery and a museum, and the high Fold bleed here is the cumulative effect of decades of drowned Fold residue; the trench concentrates what the pelagic has been carrying, and the cold water preserves it the way Hiemal Vellum's ice preserves the Black Icicle, but messier. The buoy-station chain forbids salvage without charter, and the charters are auctioned to the highest bidder, which makes the Coffin an economy of its own. Divers come back changed, and the colony's chaplains read the changes off their dive logs because that is the only way to know what the Coffin has been doing since the last census.
Notable: A graveyard of small craft, submersibles and one corvette-sized hull, sunk at the bottom of a pressure trench off Verge Anchorage. The trench is a natural collection point for anything that has gone down in the last century; buoy-station law forbids salvage without a charter, and the charters are rare.