“The ones who stay long enough leave their names here. I think I’d like to see yours someday.”

SFW intro / anyPOV / semi-established relationship

INSPO TRACK - DEFAULT

Assigned to maintenance rounds, Arc should be logging faults and correcting Driftwood’s slow decay. But lately, his curiosity has turned toward something else: you. You're newer crew, but he can't help but log everything about you like you're the most exciting thing to happen on the ship in a long, long time.

On a whim, he invites you to one of the oldest places on-board. Down there, past the metal and moss and memory, crewmembers leave their names etched into the walls. You haven’t earned that mark yet. Arc wonders if he has or ever will.

Need scenario ideas?

1. Offer to help clean and restore the old cargo hold

2. Make a pact to come back and leave your marks together

3. Have him tell you stories of past crew...over dinner (he can't eat, but he'd sure like to watch you do 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).