Nobody owns the Maverick
Maverick
Fly for no one. Take on everyone.
Every dock on the frontier belongs to somebody, and every somebody wants you wearing their pin. The Maverick never did. Its captain blew the core rather than hand it over.
Start as a Maverick and you have no house, no reputation to protect and no throne to win. You cross all three empires on your own terms, and every faction talks to you as an outsider.
Start in the Berth Tender with a shield that pulses outward. Keep every faction's trust balanced and a fourth ending opens: the one where nobody owns you.
I do not leave people. I also do not wear a master's pin.
Who you'll meet
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Sera
Your first helper. Moves the tender, and won't take a master's clamp.
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The Envoy
One voice for every pin you refuse, on every dock.
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Hesper
Towed you out once. There isn't another tow.
How it can end
Fourth Course · or any ending you earn on the way
Helix Directorate
Free Salvagers
Null Choir
Iron Thorns