A Chthonari Crew's Log Line on Eden's Mount Three

In the spring of 2828 UCSD four Chthonari on a Federation contractor crew, on their first posting off the Undersong Belt, cut new members under Eden Space Habitat's dock ring, the understructure the fold-approach monitoring hangs from. The habitat certifies the work sound. The youngest, Tikket, hears approach mount three ringing as a mount does under more load than its record names, and the crew's own work log, kept by Kattik, carries the line the habitat's certification copy omits.

Re-baselined against an independent reference, Eden's six fold-approach instruments show their zero had absorbed the mount's deflection: it carries roughly a third again over its certified load. The Corps' fold-approach watch refuses its countersign on that ground; Orbital Five-O invites the Star Rangers' Engineering Corps to inspect jointly with Eden's engineers; and the inspection finds a bracket deformed by a 2825 UCSD berth strike under the original plating. Eden issues a corrected certification, and the watch countersigns.

Canon facts:

• A Chthonari crew keeps its own work log on a job, separate from a habitat's certification copy.
• The crew learned of the outcome only through the habitat's changed reading, given in answer to Tsikk's standing question; it met neither the watch nor the engineers.
• The crew's new members were sound; the load they carried was the old damage. The Compact's audit found no intent.

See: Sound, as Certified (S10E01C02), What Settles It (S10E01C05), Record in Order (S10E01C07), Tekka.