Trusted associate
Rigel
Grew up beside Orion under Atlas’s watch. Where Orion plans, Rigel improvises—especially when a quiet extraction becomes a close-quarters argument.
- Strength
- Adaptation
- Disposition
- Approachable
Return to transmission
Restricted archive · NF/CX–001
The Codex
Known people, places, signals, and threats. Some files are incomplete. Some were made incomplete on purpose.
Directory
Open files
8 records recovered
Person / 001OrionActive · Wanted
Person / 002RigelActive · Allied
Person / 003AtlasRetired · Allegedly
Person / 004Astra ValeAllegiance unknown
Person / 005VexaEnhanced · Dangerous
Location / 014M42Neutral ground
Region / 027Glass DesertTraversal discouraged
Signal / 008Free FrequencyOrigin concealed
Visual record / verified
Person / 001
Orion
Wanted outlaw, underground performer, and the government’s most persistent administrative problem.
- Status
- Active
- Occupation
- Vigilante / Performer
- Known base
- Mobile
- Threat level
- Severe when annoyed
Orion works beyond the civilized line, targeting traffickers, exploiters, and anyone who mistakes authority for virtue. He plans carefully, shoots cleanly, and keeps children out of the crossfire whenever he can.
Between jobs, he performs in underground bars under his own name—either confidence or arrogance, depending on who is filing the report. His turquoise pendant is the only personal object he guards more closely than his weapons.
Field note If the hat comes off, the situation has already changed.
Known associates & complications
People
Mentor / Intel
Atlas
Retired soldier, underground intelligence broker, and the man who raised Orion among wanted men. The retirement claim remains technically unverified.
- Strength
- Intelligence
- Uniform
- Hawaiian shirt
Performer / Unconfirmed
Astra Vale
A magnetic M42 performer with high-society polish and dangerous instincts. Possible informant. Definite complication.
- Allegiance
- Unknown
- Assessment
- Watch closely
Bounty hunter
Vexa
An enhanced hunter who treats pursuit as sport and Orion as unfinished business. She catches him when she can. Keeping him has proven harder.
- Threat
- Extreme
- Pattern
- Catch / Release
Mapped territory
Places
Location / 014
M42
Part saloon, part stage, part information exchange. M42 offers music, whiskey, and the fragile protection of neutral ground. Hospitality is selective. Trouble is not.
- Known for live underground performances
- Favored meeting point for smugglers and informants
- Government presence strongly discouraged
Region / 027
Glass Desert
A vast expanse of fused, reflective earth. Beautiful from orbit. Less forgiving on foot. Heat, fractured terrain, and the absence of cover make every crossing visible.
- Reflected light distorts distance
- Fractured ground punishes careless travel
- Night crossings are safer, never safe
Signal / 008
Free Frequency
An illegal broadcast carried across abandoned channels: warnings, music, coordinates, names the government would rather erase. Its transmitters move. Its operators do not identify themselves.
Channel42.8ConditionUnstableEncryptionVariable
“If you can hear us, the line is still open.”
World file / Partial recovery
What remains
The Authority
A centralized regime holding the surviving population through surveillance, restriction, and selective mercy. Official records describe order. The frontier remembers the cost.
The Frontier
Territory beyond reliable government control: settlements, ruins, trade routes, and long stretches of beautiful bad judgment.
The Underground
Not one organization, but a shifting network of performers, smugglers, informants, vigilantes, and ordinary people who refuse to disappear quietly.
Archive integrity: 63% · Additional records pending interception.