Two versions of the R-3 encounter, the first short cooperative rescue, both following the opening: the player has seen R-3's painted ward label, a breathable-pressure indicator and a repeated knock through a window they could not reach, and has installed the isolation bridge.

**Cast note.** Yeva Kolb is the first survivor. This is consistent with the existing pages: Expedition Proposal already has her rescued on an earlier trip, and Rescue and Home has Dorn found later behind a sealed section that Yeva names. Making her first preserves that order.

**Her desire.** Yeva is a pressure-tech. She has spent months measuring which parts of this ward system still hold, and the record is on the wall in tape and grease pencil. She wants it to leave with her.

**The disagreement.** The player wants her through the door now. Her answer to *we should go* is *not until that comes too* — and she is not being sentimental. She believes it is the only reason she is worth bringing.

**The crossing.** Canister through the sleeve, flow confirmed, the astronaut holds the junction against an ordinary crowd, Yeva crosses under her own power and the airlock takes her. One held junction, one crossing, no accompaniment through the station.

**The choice.** The wall cannot be carried by someone in a borrowed suit. The astronaut can photograph it — work done while the game runs, in the open, while the crowd is coming — or refuse and cross now. Nothing is confiscated either way, and the cost is exposure at the worst moment.

**Why she leaves even if the player refuses.** Because she has been watching the ward's margin more closely than anyone and knows it is losing. Staying is now the worse of two bad options, and she says so plainly rather than being talked round. She goes, and she is quieter about it.

**What she contributes aboard.** She can say which fittings on a recorded route held or had failed when measured, with the dates of those measurements. This is historical evidence; it says nothing about unseen current conditions. With the wall, she can speak to rooms she never entered; without it, only to what she measured herself, which is less and she says so.

**The return scene.** She does not thank anyone. She asks for a working light, sits down with the ship's recorder, and reads out the ward's pressure log from memory — dates, rooms, the day each one stopped holding — because that list is also, in order, the days people stopped coming back.

**Death, abort and shift.** Death before departure leaves her in R-3, pressurised, and the station shifted: the walked route is historical and a new one must be found. An **ordinary living abort** returns her through the ward door, which closes behind her, and the station does not shift. Death **during** the crossing is the pending case above: she reaches the named abort refuge, and the astronaut learns nothing of it aboard — the door leaves a tell on that refuge's local control only, so her state stays unconfirmed until the player observes that refuge in person. R-3 keeps its identity and pressure and travels with its own group; the route to it is what became historical.