HELM · Frame II — Helm

Helm & Navigation

Shipmaster’s pit · Lt. Cmdr. Rowan Vale

Keep the needle on the road. Slipstream geometry, stellar cartography, and the Pale Gate archive — every corridor the Compact still remembers.

The pit sits under a dome of moving stars. Vale’s people do not fly the ship so much as persuade the lattice to admit her.

Current tasking

Approach Hollow Beacon, 18.4 light-minutes, inertial. Slipstream cold until the node answers.