Location:Mid Ring, Vel'thari Containment — Dead Spot, Federation Debris Field
Date/Time:Early Ashwhisper, 9941 AZI — Month 3 of the Harrowing
Realm:Lower Realm, Doha
The grid search started at dawn — or what passed for dawn in a place without light.
Jayde had marked the dead spot's boundaries by pace count and compass bearing the day before, mapping the zone's perimeter while Eden catalogued the initial wreckage finds. The dead spot was roughly circular, nearly a kilometer across, and the debris field sat at its center in a dense scatter that thinned toward the edges. She divided the field into thirty-meter squares, scratching the grid markers into the stone floor with a chisel from the ring supplies, and started at the northeast corner.
