Runaway

An aging space‑yard storyteller once sang a melancholy ballad about a lost Clementine, planting a seed of fascination in a young mechanic’s mind. Decades later, that mechanic becomes the commander of a battered cargo ship called the R.S. Clementine, rescued from a rusting graveyard on the desolate world of Canalopolis. When an asteroid strike leaves the vessel adrift, a disembodied voice flickers across the void, hinting at a mystery that could rewrite the forgotten history of early interplanetary travel.

Driven by the promise of newly discovered gold on Europa, the crew sees an opportunity to turn a dying outpost into a new frontier. As they outfit the aging ship for a daring run through the treacherous Asteroid Belt, old legends about sentient hulls and vanished pioneers begin to surface. The story follows their struggle to survive, to trust the ship’s strange calls, and to decide whether the past can be reclaimed amid the cold of deep space.