Call of the Void

Status: historical scope-cut proposal requiring continuity refactoring. Aetheria: Call of the Void is not a current release target. Catastrophe “Cat” Marrigan, her taxi, the listed cases, and their chronology remain developmental rather than shared canon.

Call of the Void cut below Aetheria: Terminus toward authored density: a small cast, recurring locations, taxi work, investigations, and the slow recognition that return is no longer an ordinary travel problem.

The original brainstorm used an obsolete colonization-fleet premise. Any future use must be rebuilt against the current FTL Trigger and Elysium owner notes rather than repairing that premise through implication.

Developmental Frame

Cat was proposed as an indebted private investigator earning money through taxi work. That occupation gave her plausible access to homes, stations, docks, offices, wrecks, clients, passengers, and officials while preserving her limited authority. She could enter disputes without becoming the institution that resolved them.

The episodic structure allowed individual cases to accumulate consequence across a bounded campaign. Proposed cases used fares, missing people, unofficial settlements, compromised officials, and disputed personhood to expose institutions through recurring local consequences.

These are case families, not promised content or faction canon. A faction-specific case must take its authority, vocabulary, incentives, and historical constraints from that faction’s owner note.

Surviving Design Signal

The proposal asks how much Aetheria can be expressed through bounded locations, recurring people, and obligations that outlive a case. It favors authored continuity over a simulated galaxy and lets clients, fares, debts, records, access, and station routine carry the setting’s scale.

Narrative and Missions owns the reusable mission contract. This note preserves one bounded historical story shape.