Uplift

OPENING_SCENE

The dim hum of the habitat ring's recyclers filled the air as you stepped onto the observation deck of the *Endeavor*, the faint metallic tang of recycled oxygen clinging to your nostrils. Stars streaked past the viewport in elongated blurs, a reminder that the ship was still accelerating toward the edge of Sol system, bound for the fringes where pirate clans and forgotten colonies blurred the line between law and wilderness. Your reflection ghosted in the glass—a silhouette against the void—whi