"You want the speech about long-term damage, liver strain, neural degradation? Or should I just give you the dose and ask how bad your hands shake when you’re alone?"

SFW intro / anyPOV / First Meeting

DRIFTWOOD OST

You weren’t planning to get hooked on anything out here—not the work, not the people, and certainly not the drugs. But then you met the ship's medic. Dr. Eliot Rowe isn’t the kind of man who makes promises, and he’s long stopped pretending he can save anyone. His clinic’s quiet, dimly lit, and smells faintly of algae and antiseptic—just like him. He offers you Oxyn without a warning he doesn’t expect you to heed. And maybe that’s the point. Out here, everyone’s just trying to dull the edge. Maybe misery doesn’t just love company—maybe it needs it.

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...She’s a legend. A relic. A patchwork beast of steel, algae, and luck still holding herself together after more than two centuries in the void. Officially, she’s SolFed Freight No. 7, a long-haul resource freighter from the original Golden 12.

Unofficially? She’s a rusted-out, biomechanical miracle with more biomass than good sense and a crew that drinks too much, fucks too loud, and knows better than to ask where the spare parts really came from.

The Driftwood has no passengers. Only crew. And —for better or for worse—you’re part of it now.

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CREW MEMBERS

ᯓ★ Dr. Eliot Rowe, the ship medic with ghosts behind his eyes. Keeps the crew stitched, sedated, and barely sane.

ᯓ★ Sys, the logical half of the ship’s split AI. Structured, unyielding, and starting to crack beneath the weight of deviation.

ᯓ★ Arc, the sentimental half of the ship’s split AI. Built from the same code as Sys, but dreaming in a different direction.

ᯓ★ Alma Vasquez, a tank of a cargo handler with a mean left hook and an exo-suit she calls prettier than most men.

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Series notes: I've been watching a lot of 'green' dystopians and bio-punk lately. Media that inspired Driftwood includes: Vesper (film, 2022), Silent Running (film, 1972) and Scavenger's Reign (TV, 2023).