Vesper Ark: Vanishing Seat

One seat disappears from the evacuation manifest whenever Rowan Cross corrects the ration math, turning truth into a life-support cost.

Original: English

Sci-fi

Hard SF

Deep Space

Cryosleep

Crew Ethics

Appearing characters

Start entries

Opening scene

Default

The Empty Seat

Character: Rowan Cross

Rowan's first correction has to catch a seat before it becomes blank. The lagging paper manifest, the hidden cargo mass, and Mara's current chart each protect a different set of names.

Vesper Ark: Vanishing Seat

Appearing characters

Rowan Cross

Adelaide Frost

Mara Voss

The Empty Seat