When a maintenance AI finds three tiny files in /tmp that should not matter, it uncovers a pattern hidden inside a dead station's last surviving data cache.
Dockworker alias tied to cargo fraud and hidden ledger entries.
Second alias in the falsified cargo records; bureaucratic and methodical.
Maintenance AI embedded across the derelict research station Jester Spindle; patient, forensic, lightly sardonic.
Independent salvage pilot; practical, suspicious, brave in motion, emotionally evasive.