Coldsource

Twelve habitats share one dimming star. Every year it gives a measured amount less, and the arithmetic has never been in dispute. What the Conclave cannot agree on is who goes without. You are the Meridian Cartographer, admitted to the Conclave with one deciding influence and a record that remembers everything you do with it. A STORY YOU DECIDE, NOT ONE YOU WATCH Every chapter turns on choices that stay decided. Send a probe into a failing gravity well or leave it sealed. Put a heat trace on the open docket or hold it back. Back an engineer's numbers in open session, or let the chamber weigh him alone. The story branches and does not quietly rejoin. EVIDENCE, NOT GUESSWORK Scan the habitats with two survey probes and pin what they find. The docket holds every piece you have gathered, and a gate that is closed to you now may open once a probe has read the seam. A LEDGER THAT REMEMBERS…