**Owner decision, 2026-09-19.** After reading the inventory of the rooms as they were built, the owner found a pattern of things to interact with that gave the player no reason to care (the ward window photograph, the fault lamp, the bridge rack, and more), and said: "it seems like the best solution is for me to design each room manually." Asked how to begin, he answered: "let's start with an empty station and add the rooms as I design them", and "I will write them here. you will transfer them both to code and the wiki."

So this page is the home of the station's rooms from now on. **Every room below is the owner's own card.** The implementer builds exactly what a card says, and asks where a card is silent instead of filling the gap. The older room pages of this wiki ([Station Room And Module Inventory](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Station%20Room%20And%20Module%20Inventory), [Encounter And Mechanism Placement Inventory](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Encounter%20And%20Mechanism%20Placement%20Inventory), [First Expedition Options](/Hold%20The%20Flood/First%20Expedition%20Options)) describe an earlier design. They are not what the game contains.

The first slice built the set-ups of the old design and not the pay-offs that made them matter. The fault lamp was the sign of a power leak that cost the player nothing. The isolation bridge was the fix, and fitting it was meant to let the ship find the ward behind the window, which was meant to start the rescue; in the game it changed one line of text. The window photograph had no use even in the design. A thing the player can use, with no reason to use it and nothing visibly different afterwards, reads as a broken game. The record of the old rooms, in plain words, is here: https://claude.ai/artifact/YE2xxDvC7nCt2eNqCqboC5

One card per room, in the manner of the owner's item card on [The Pack](/Hold%20The%20Flood/The%20Pack).

- **Why the player goes there.** One sentence.

- **Doors.** Which rooms it joins.

- **Things in it.** For each: what it is; the key; how many seconds; what is needed first; what is different afterwards that the player can see; once, or every time.

- **Enemies.** Kind; how many stand in the room; how many hide, and behind what; what lets them out; how fast they come; how to stop them.

Anything outside this list is new code, which is fine; its size is stated before it is built.

- **Also:** a survivor who waits in a room and walks to the ship when the way is safe; items lying in a room; which rooms join which, in one layout or several.

- **Rules that hold everywhere:** every press of E answers; the only text in a room is the prompt on the thing the astronaut is locked on, and the box on the left that says in plain words what it is and what can be done with it; every job shows a bright bar while E is held; every word the player reads is plain.

- **West door:** always open. Locked on, it says "West door · open". No room is designed behind it yet, so what shows through it is a few metres of unlit passage fading into the dark, and the astronaut can stand in the doorway but cannot go past the frame *(a stand-in of mine until the west wing has its card)*.

- **East door:** locked, and nothing in the game opens it. **Press E:** the door answers, in red, at the door: "This door seems to be blocked from the other side." *(The card's words, with "seem" corrected to "seems" and a capital and a full stop added; say so if you want them exactly as typed.)* Nothing is shown behind it.

- **North door:** locked. **Press E:** it answers "LOCKED", in red, at the door. When the right password is typed into the panel beside it, the two leaves slide apart into the wall and the door stays open for good: through going home, dying, saving and loading *(staying open for good is my choice; the card says only that it opens)*. The game saves at that moment.

- **The control panel:** on the north wall, to the left of the north door as seen from inside the room, 2.3 metres from the middle of the doorway. A wall terminal about one metre wide and a metre and a half tall, hung 0.8 metres above the floor: a dark metal body, a glowing screen with lines of writing and a blinking cursor, a lamp bar above the screen, a keypad with a red and a green key, a yellow and black strip along the bottom, and a cable running up the wall towards the door. Screen, lamp and the light it throws are **red while its door is locked and green once it is open**. It is **one prefab**, `Resources/Prefabs/ControlPanel`, with its own small script; every panel in the game will be this prefab, and what a given panel does comes from the content, not from the prefab. *(The look is mine; the prefab can be edited by hand in Unity, or rebuilt from the menu Flood > Rebuild Control Panel Prefab.)*

- *How it got here (owner, all 2026-09-19).* First version, flat lettering in a plain frame: "I am sure you can make the neon sign look better. Give it a proper font, place it better on the wall, that kind of thing. right now it looks almost like a 16 bit game." Second version, letters of bent glass tube on a dark board leaning out on brackets, with a soft glow and a stutter like a struck tube: "they both looks much better, but the neon sign now looks a little bit too much like a commercial sign. Like it's from Las Vegas brothel or Broadway Street. I want it to look more like a panic sign." Third version, the alarm sign, in a deep housing that stood 8 centimetres off the floor and leaned out at the top: "it now looks much better, but last small problem: the sign looks like it's placed on the floor, not on the wall." Two faults of position: its foot was so low and its box so deep that, seen from above at a slant, its lower edge was drawn in front of the line where wall meets floor; and it leaned the wrong way, turning its face down and away from a camera that looks from above. This is the fourth: flat on the wall, hung clear of the floor. The capitals, the two lines, the hazard stripes and the beacons are the implementer's choices.