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State of the Station

Every other Space Station 14 server forgets you the second the round ends. This is the one keeping score. Here's what that's built into, so far — no case files, no spoilers, just the state of things.

By The Numbers

The Station, Counted

7

Stations in rotation

Seven fully custom stations, each running its own lighting and mood profile — Oasis to Terminus, dusk-blue to sterile white.

6

Interface themes

Redrawn in-house this season — Ashen, Plasmafire, Retro, Clockwork, Slimecore, Minimalist. Management has no preference. It notices yours.

1

Season Ledger

One personnel file per soul. It does not clear when the round does.

0

Borrowed textures

Every surface on the station is Solreign’s own work now — the license debt closed to zero this season.

Once

First-death commemorations, per employee, ever

Your first is public, permanent, and observed by name. After that, it’s standard processing.

The One Idea Everything Else Rests On

The Station Remembers You

Most Space Station 14 servers reset completely at round end. Whoever you were for the last hour is gone the moment the shuttle docks — a fresh station, a fresh stranger, every time. SOLREIGN keeps a file instead. The Season Ledger records deeds, titles, and standing across every round you play, and every round carries what came before it forward.

That one decision is the spine of everything on this page. A persistent record only matters if the station keeps acting on it — so this section is a look at what SOLREIGN has built on top of it this season: who tells you it's watching, what changed, and what's just arrived.

Station Intelligence

One Voice, Always On Shift

PROVIDENCE is the voice on the intercom — a standing announcer persona that narrates your shift, reads your personnel file aloud when you board, and eulogizes you when you stop being billable. It gets chattier the smaller the crew gets; an emptier station is a station with more to say.

Every line PROVIDENCE speaks to players passes a moderation gate first — it doesn't get to freelance. What it says the rest of the time is corporate deadpan, and it means every word.

Verified & Announced

Live On The Floor Right Now

The station just processed two seasons of updates back to back. Every one of these is live, announced, and yours the next time you board.

Commemorations

Your First Termination Is Now A Matter Of Record

Every employee's first death in service is formally observed by PROVIDENCE the moment it happens: a public notice, a permanent entry in the personnel file, once — ever. Every subsequent death goes back to ordinary processing. The distinction is the whole point.

Interface

Six Ways The Station Looks Back At You

Six full interface themes were redrawn in-house this season. Pick whichever one suits how you want the station to look while it's watching you work.

Materials

Nothing On The Walls Is Borrowed Anymore

Every texture aboard — tiles, panels, parallax backdrops — is Solreign's own art now. What used to be borrowed is closed out.

Onboarding

Wingmate Pairing, On All Seven Stations

A pairing beacon stands at arrivals on every station in the rotation — walk up, pair with another employee, and work the shift together. New arrivals also get a moderated first assignment instead of being dropped in cold.

Continuity

Your Position Is Always Held

Cryogenic storage is fully reintegrated: suspend a shift and resume later in the same body, personnel file untouched. The Ledger doesn't close accounts when you log off. It never has.

Shift Conditions

A Quiet Crew No Longer Means A Quiet Shift

The station now pays attention to who's actually aboard. Depending on staffing, shifts can run noticeably different from the ones you're used to — we're not going to say how. A crew of three or more should consider itself observed with interest.

Soundscape

The Station Has A New Voice

The sound pass is done, too — every noise aboard, from the doors to the announcer's own voice, re-provisioned as the station's own work rather than licensed in. If something sounds different, it is.

The Milestone is not a destination. It's a note in the margin that reads: “begin.”

Recovery Division

Something Is Being Planted

Coming into rotation this season: first shifts will end somewhere quiet, where you're handed one small, permanent thing. What happens to it after that is between you and the station. We're not describing it further than that.

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The Rest Of The File

This page is the summary. Everything on it goes deeper elsewhere on the station.

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