Captain Halla Voss
Master of the KSV Covenant's Promise, eighty-three years old and thirty-one years in a cryo-coffin.
Captain Halla Voss took the KSV Covenant's Promise out in 2812 with two hundred and eighty-seven refugees from a Core-world agricultural colony aboard. The ship passed through a Fold-bleed that was on no Confederation chart. She was lost with all hands presumed in 2841.
She is eighty-three. One coffin of two hundred and eighty-seven is lit, and she is inside it, and she has been for thirty-one years.
She does not remember the bleed. Her memory ends at the moment before she sealed herself in, and begins again when the coffin opens. Everything between is a gap she can describe the edges of and nothing else.
She is the only living witness, the way off the hull, and the anchor for the thing wearing her acting engineer. The Echo-Shade on the cryo-deck is her own last eleven seconds of conscious experience, replayed and distorted across three decades, and it will speak with Mirra Tan's voice while it does it. Nobody has told her that yet.
What she wants, when asked, is the thing nobody has offered her: to be told what happened to her passengers by somebody who is not guessing.
Rules Reference
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Abilities / Cha | 13 |
| Abilities / Con | 9 |
| Abilities / Dex | 8 |
| Abilities / Int | 14 |
| Abilities / Str | 7 |
| Abilities / Wis | 16 |
| Armor Class | 11 |
| Base Attack Bonus | 1 |
| Creature Type | Humanoid |
| Flat Ac | 10 |
| Hd Count | 2 |
| Hd Sides | 8 |
| Hit Dice | 2d8 |
| Hit Points | 8 |
| Hp Bonus | 0 |
| Initiative | 0 |
| Languages | Core Standard as it was spoken thirty-one years ago; Confederation signal protocol; no Kadiss implant |
| Senses | Normal human vision, poor in the dark after three decades of it; passive Perception 12 |
| Size | M |
| Skills / Bureaucracy | 5 |
| Skills / Notice | 4 |
| Skills / Persuasion | 4 |
| Skills / Sense Motive | 6 |
| Skills / Tactics | 6 |
| Speed | 20 |
| Threat Rating | 2 |
| Touch Ac | 11 |
| Xp | 300 |
| Dialogue Path | game/dialogue/npc-halla-voss.yaml |
Attacks
Unarmed
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
bonus | 0 |
category | melee |
damage | 1d2 |
name | Unarmed |
notes | She has been asleep for thirty-one years and can barely stand. She is not a combatant. |
Special Abilities
Thirty-One Years Of Gap
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
actionCost | passive |
name | Thirty-One Years Of Gap |
description: Halla remembers the moment before she sealed the coffin and nothing after it until it opened. Questions about the bleed, the crew's deaths or the intervening decades return nothing, and pressing produces distress rather than information. Player-visible: she answers the question she can and names the gap plainly rather than confabulating.
The Anchor
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
actionCost | passive |
name | The Anchor |
description: The Echo-Shade on the cryo-deck is anchored to Halla and to her coffin, being her own final eleven seconds replayed and distorted. Moving her, waking her or destroying the coffin changes what the Wraith is able to do. Player-visible: the thing wearing Mirra Tan speaks about the captain as though she were in the room, because to it she is.