The Wanderer Field
The Wanderer Field looks like the natural debris of a Derelict ark in a long orbit.
Rules Reference
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Aesthetic | ruin |
| Anchor System | wanderer |
| Controlling Faction | none |
| Fold Bleed | high |
| Population | 0 |
| Role | satellite |
| Zone | Beyond |
Notes
Dangers: The field's official Core chart is two-thirds incomplete. The missing third is, by tradition, the part most pilots die in., Anything retrieved from the field changes its mass slowly over the following weeks. The mass change is always a small increase. The mass added has never been identified., A Fold-jumper inside the field was reported to have made a jump of nine light-years that, by the jumper's own log, took nine minutes.
Hooks: The field contains dozens of smaller chunks of ark hull. The chunks were not broken off. The chunks are also too neat to be debris., A Drift Logistics captain who tried to navigate the field with the official Core chart ran aground on a chunk that was not on the chart. The captain was paid for the lost hull. The captain now sells charts of the field to anyone who buys., A scout reported a chunk of the field that hummed at the same frequency as the Wanderer's broadcast. The scout brought the chunk back. The chunk has stopped humming since.
Lore: The Wanderer Field looks like the natural debris of a derelict ark in a long orbit. The Wanderer Field is not natural. The Wanderer Field is whatever the Wanderer shed, or whatever the Wanderer has been shedding, in its long drift. Pilots fly the field because the field is the only way to get close. Pilots who know the field well fly it once and then do not fly it again.
Notable: A sparse rocky field strung along the dead star's orbital plane, mostly small chunks of metal and a great deal of frozen volatiles., The chunks of metal are ark hull. The frozen volatiles are not from the dead star. The frozen volatiles are not from anywhere on the chart., A single, slowly tumbling hull panel with the Wanderer's Earth-reckoning year painted on it in a script no one on the survey team could read.