Vestan Reach - Containment is a business model | Chapter 3
Added 2025-07-16 20:00:05 +0000 UTCVESTAN REACH continues...
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A science fiction thriller of silence, secrets, and what waits in the dark.
For thirty years, Vestan Reach was just another forgotten colony. A corporate enclave buried deep in the Outer Rim, run by drones, sustained by laborers, and ignored by Earth.
Then it went dark.
No signal. No distress call. Just silence.
When an official inquiry arrives from Earth citing an obsolete humanitarian charter no one’s cared about in decades, VantaDyne Corporation is forced to act. But the mission isn’t rescue. It’s containment.
Commander Rook and his team are dispatched to investigate. What they find in orbit is not abandonment. It’s erasure. A silent world guarded by something non-human, something not meant to be found.
As the investigation unravels, political games flare behind closed doors, and a deeper pattern emerges: lost probes, buried reports, and a distant void that seems to swallow everything sent toward it.
Because Vestan Reach didn’t just fail.
It was silenced.
And whatever did it is still out there.
Comments
Change and the unknown are two great sources of psychological fear. They have detected change, and are attempting to investigate an unknown to discover yet further unknowns. The ship crew and commander try to investigate without being detected fearing similar results of probes used to investigate before that disappeared. High tension of another silent service. space ships strike me as similar to submarines, relying heavily on sensors and stealth. Engage silent running, passive systems only, drift trajectory navigation into unknown/enemy space. Yet... this isn't a military ship backed by a government, but an armed vessel of a corporate entity with powers greater than a single planet government. It's going to be complicated, but interesting for sure. Looking forward to more.
T Griffetts
2025-07-31 16:40:43 +0000 UTCVery well written
Steven
2025-07-16 23:15:20 +0000 UTC
