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History
Twenty-eight years between discovery and descent: the survey, the station, the lift program and the night the relays went dark.
ARCHIVE RECORDDiscovery of the Rift (2189)A routine geophysical survey of the Khepri Basin finds a shaft where the bedrock should be, and a probe that reports back before it is launched.
ARCHIVE RECORDThe survey era (2190–2206)Relays, tether platforms and the first Rift Shard: sixteen years of learning how to go down, and how hard it is to come back.
ARCHIVE RECORDThe Asterion Accord (2211)The treaty that built a station, closed a basin and created the Continuity Directorate to keep the Rift under control.
ARCHIVE RECORDThe lift programHow a one-way tether platform became a return-capable carrier: the phase coupler, the magnetised strip and the price paid to build the C-9.
ARCHIVE RECORDThe 2214 return testThe first crew-rated lift comes back from the Rift empty, carrying a shard nobody sent down. Days later its designer disappears.
ARCHIVE RECORDThe Asterion blackout (2217)At 03:17 station time all eleven lower relays go dark. The last packet carries six words in the voice of a man missing for three years.
ARCHIVE RECORDThe descent (2217–)The solo descent of the C-9: what the archive knows of Marek Venn’s route so far, sector by sector.