Suddenly, the station's gravity failed. Outside the viewport, a fleet of sleek, black silhouettes—ships Elias had never seen before—emerged from the darkness. They didn't fire; they simply circled, like wolves around a campfire.
The thrusters roared, blue fire illuminating the ice-choked void. As the black ships closed in, the Sage Fox 267 didn't fly away—it vanished into a ripple of light, leaving behind nothing but the cold, silent stars and a mystery that would haunt the belt for decades to come. SAGE FOX 267
The call came in over a scrambled frequency—a distress signal from an unregistered research station tucked inside the shadow of 2002 MS4. The pay was triple the standard rate, paid in untraceable credits. Elias knew it was a trap, but the Sage Fox ’s fuel cells were hitting the red, and his luck was thinner than the station’s atmosphere. Suddenly, the station's gravity failed
"Alright, Fox," Elias whispered, slamming his palm against the ignition. "Let's see if you’re as wise as your name says." The thrusters roared, blue fire illuminating the ice-choked
As the Sage Fox 267 glided into the station's docking bay, the lights flickered and died. The silence was heavy, broken only by the rhythmic hum of the ship’s life support. Elias stepped out, his mag-boots clanking against the deck, only to find the station deserted. No bodies, no signs of struggle—just a single data pad sitting on a console, glowing with a message:
In the year 2142, the Kuiper Belt was no longer a frozen graveyard of ice and rock; it was the final frontier for "The Scavengers." Among them, no pilot was more whispered about in the low-light bars of Triton than the one behind the stick of the .
Elias scrambled back to the Sage Fox . He didn't have weapons, but he had the 267’s secret weapon: an experimental "Blink" drive that could fold space for a fraction of a second. It was untested, unstable, and likely to tear the ship apart.