Space fiction

In an orbital habitat, hydroponic engineer Kael Soren turns craft into community after a slow ecological failure and a micrometeor storm force him to graft living systems to the hull. With a humming vine, a prankish maintenance drone, and an eager apprentice at his side, Kael must scale hands-on expertise across a fragile station to keep air, crops, and markets alive.

Asha Renn, a meticulous loadmaster aboard the freighter Peregrine, juggles a career-defining opportunity against a friend's fragile algae bioreactor and a living ballast called Mulch. When micrometeoroid strikes and failing thrusters force manual intervention, she must synchronize clamps, thruster pulses, and a quirky crew — including a hat‑wearing maintenance drone — to hold the ship steady and save lives.

On the Skyline ring, an artisan cablewright named Arin preserves community and craft by hand-braiding tethers. When micro-meteors threaten a neighbor’s habitat, Arin must decide between a fast machine splice and a risky manual dampening technique learned from an old teacher. Humor, human ties, and practical skill drive a rescue.

Arin Voss wrestles with the aftermath of a daring repair: inspection, censure, and the messy business of choosing what matters. Onboard the Wren, a makeshift school grows between machines and compote, where hands learn to listen to metal and a drone in a beret keeps the mood light.

A tactician of gravity, Ivo Kest, is offered the career-defining installation of Marta Haan's axial-gradient engine on Spiral Slip. The project promises acclaim but risks destabilizing the microgravity gardens that feed the ring. When prototype harmonics threaten the structure, Ivo must use his craftsman's touch to steady both metal and community.

A luminous corridor appears above Sidra, offering rapid lifelines while siphoning cultural memory. Captain Talia Voss must weigh immediate lives against lasting identity. When technical means demand an irreversible human contribution, she chooses to anchor the drift—losing pieces of herself to protect a community’s future.

A salvage captain discovers a derelict orbital platform that houses an active memory lattice — a living repository of preserved minds and communal histories. Among its stored presences is the footprint of the captain’s missing sibling. The lattice can restore or copy individual memories, but it can also be coerced into rewriting collective recollection. The central conflict opposes a personal quest for closure against the ethical duty to protect the autonomy of many and to prevent a powerful corporation from seizing and weaponizing living memory.

A tense orbital station scrambles as the Mnemosyne Node—a navigation lattice woven from human memory—begins to fail. Asha Valen, a mnemonic engineer who once fled the program, returns to design a risky, anonymized fix and confronts the choice between immediate rescue and preserving identity.

A salvage crew recovers a conscious data cluster formed from human recollections and alien patterns. Faced with corporate claimants and moral choices, they must decide whether to hand over, contain, or nurture the emergent life. The story follows the discovery, the struggle over agency, and a sacrificial act of memory for continuity.

On the brittle frontier of Eiren’s Hold, salvage captain Sera Kade confronts a failing settlement and an ancient lattice that can fold habitable space—if anchored by a single mind. As corporate forces close, Sera faces an impossible choice amid urgent containment and political pressure.

A salvage crew aboard the Harbinger recovers an ancient cognitive lattice that can reconstruct people from living patterns. When a fragment of the captain’s lost partner surfaces, the crew must reprogram the Spire while a corporation closes in — and one life is asked to anchor the choice.

A drifting survey crew finds an ancient transit node that can fold space and anchor minds. Captain Mira Sol navigates technical marvels and political appetites when the Relay offers survival by reshaping identity. Pressure from a consortium, an engineer’s disappearance into the node, and ethical peril force the Peregrine to choose containment, sacrifice, and a precarious new path toward consensual preservation.

Captain Mara Quell leads the Peregrine into orbital archives where a prototype called the Lattice exposes systematic harvesting of private memories. Against corporate power and an emergent mesh that learns to plead, Mara makes a personal sacrifice that reshapes custody of the past and forces communal choices.

On a listening station above a ringed gas giant, young acoustics engineer Nova Jeong hears a human-taught rhythm inside a dangerous magnetospheric tangle called the Chorus Verge. Disobeying orders, she joins a retired radio savant, a botanist, and a plucky maintenance robot to tune a hidden microgate, rescue survivors—among them her former mentor—and broker an uneasy truce with a salvage captain.

A young tech on a ring station around Pell disobeys orders to follow a strange signal that calls her by name. With a hermit’s tool, a ring-native guide, and an ancient ship’s voice, she awakens an alien nursery, outmaneuvers a salvager, and returns to help her station bloom with new light.