Cockpit / Canopy
Where the Providentia breaks apart in front of Cormac and the Wake becomes more than a courier on a route.
Hull
Mercury Star Runner
Manufacturer
Crusader Industries
Public Role
Civilian courier / data runner
Incident Status
Returned / damaged / renamed
Official Ship Reference
Mercury Star Runner
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Ship File
A vessel with two names
The official record starts with a practical hull: a Crusader courier chassis with cargo capacity, data storage, crew bunks, and a rear ramp. The public story starts later, after the Saint Brendan's Wake crossed a field of wreckage with survivors hidden in its hold.
By the time rescue crews reached Levski, the ship was no longer only Cormac MacRae's runner. It was proof, shelter, argument, and evidence. The name Deepwell Mercy arrived because the old registry had become too small for what returned.
- Record Name
- Deepwell Mercy
- Prior Registry
- Saint Brendan's Wake
- Known Captain
- Cormac Ivar MacRae
- Recovered At
- Levski dockside, Nyx system
- Public Classification
- Witness vessel / casualty transport
Visual Survey
Hull study
The surviving images read like an exterior walkaround: nose, spine, ramp, port profile, and the name painted into the hull.
Operational Profile
Built to run, remembered for stopping
Courier
The hull's public life is practical: urgent freight, sealed containers, contract routes, and places where a fast civilian ship can arrive before anyone official has agreed to care.
Data Runner
Crusader built the Mercury around the movement of information as much as cargo. In the story, that makes the ship a witness carrier: what it holds can be people, records, or both.
Rescue Hold
The hold is where the page stops being about specifications. It becomes a triage space, a hiding place, and the reason the ship returns with a name that sounds like judgment.
Known Spaces
Spaces that matter to the record
Cargo Hold
Rear-ramp access, survivor transfer, improvised triage, and the place where the public narrative fails to fit the bodies aboard.
Service Crawls
Opened panels, hidden capacity, black boxes, sealed cargo, and the kind of space inspectors are not paid enough to find.
Scanner / Data Room
The Mercury's professional excuse for handling signals, encrypted routes, and inconvenient proof.
Shared Habitation
The small domestic layer: bunks, galley, storage, and the ordinary life still bolted inside a ship asked to do too much.
Ramp / Threshold
The only way in and out becomes ceremonial after Levski: a threshold between official history and the people who touched the hull because it came back.
Incident Record
Deep Well return state
VESSEL_RECORD / DEEPWELL_MERCY
prior_registry: SAINT_BRENDANS_WAKE
hull: CRUSADER_MERCURY_STAR_RUNNER
incident: PROVIDENTIA_MASSACRE
deep_well_transit: survived
quantum_drive: compromised
main_engines: damaged
pressure_loss: three_compartments
cargo_hold_status: survivor_triage
public_status: returned_with_witnesses
name_status: changed_by_levskiDamage
Pressure loss, quantum failure, engine damage, structural complaints from every part of the vessel that had a right to object.
Evidence
Fourteen survivors, conflicting official accounts, and one ship whose cargo manifest no longer described what mattered.
Renaming
Levski did not name a perfect ship. It named the wounded one that came back.