Signal from the Long Dark

The tug Kestrel’s Promise and its found-family crew answer a distress beacon from the colony transport Amaranth Vale, dark in the Long Dark for six years. Someone woke the beacon days ago. Aboard, the crew finds a drive gutted on purpose, two hundred colonists asleep, a chief engineer who is one crewmember’s estranged mother, a survivor whose story keeps changing, and a sealed cargo vault holding a prototype that could terraform a world without a licence. A conspiracy wearing a rescue’s face wants it back quietly, and the crew has four sessions to decide what they owe to strangers, to each other, and to the truth.