Overview

A converted free merchant repurposed as a survey vessel, the Pale Cartographer catalogs pretech ruins and Mandate-era infrastructure across the sector. Its presence in Kestrel is no accident — the Surveyors are quietly investigating both the orbital elevator ruins on Kestrel II and the theft of one of their own patrol craft, now sailing under a different name.

Stats

Crew

• Captain — Archivist Renn Toll, a meticulous Surveyor field agent
• Five researchers and technicians, unarmed but well-connected

Cargo & Notable Gear

• Survey drones and deep-scan sensor arrays
• Sealed archive of Mandate-era system charts, including old data on Kestrel III's moons

History

• Dispatched to Kestrel System to assess the civil war's threat to pretech sites in the region
• Has quietly reached out to Governor Osk's administration for access and protection