Spindle
Needle-Caster
Combat — accurate mid-range bone-glass darts.
Traversal — fires anchor points, triggers organic switches.
Story & Signal
The station is dead.
The station is dead.
The Vire is learning.
Playable — Recovery Specialist
Mara Venn
Practical, tired, unimpressed by corporate hero talk. Born with a neurological quirk that makes her resistant to Vire synchronization — which is why she survives first contact, and why the Vire becomes obsessed with her. She isn't immune. She's compatible in the wrong direction.
Guide — Station Intelligence
EIDOLON
An emergency intelligence stitched together from the brain scans of dead staff — researchers, security, children, executives, one very guilty project lead. It speaks like one person. It has been quietly editing its own memory, because it can't face what the project actually did.
The Truth Beneath
The Vire was found as a “signal” buried under the facility. The team thought it was a programmable bio-energy source. It isn't an organism at all — it's an extinction protocol. It lands on worlds, copies their tools, language, and memories, then collapses them into something new. The research team didn't unleash it by accident. They taught it how humans work.
