Appendix · The wreck register
Lloyd's kept two books. One listed the vessels in class; the other listed the losses, name by name, with the date, the days at sea and the cause where it was known. Chapter III is the first book. A yard that prints only the first book is not a yard, gentle reader, it is an advertisement. This is the second.
22days afloat
Five steps and a deadline in April: the account, the flagship film, the thumbnails, the distribution, the pipeline. The deadline arrived and not one of the five had been struck through. Nothing was ever uploaded.
SalvageThe whole launch was refitted as a book — the one you are reading.
81days afloat
Five platforms to open with one face across all of them. She stayed afloat the longest of any vessel in this register and finished the voyage with every box on her manifest still unticked. Time at sea is not the same as distance made good.
SalvageNone recovered.
70days afloat
A master execution plan, a north star, a wiki, a clip plan and finished copy for every platform she was meant to reach. All of it survives. The film does not: it was never shot. The papers of this vessel outlived their subject by ten weeks, which is the most expensive thing in the register — not the failure, the paperwork around a failure that never became work.
SalvageThe lesson, taken aboard everything since: no plan is allowed to be longer than the thing it plans.
33days afloat
A design document that opened with the words to be approved before build. It was never approved. The brief itself was sound — read the message, judge the urgency, draft the reply in his hand, never send without him.
SalvageEverything she was for is standing today under another name and another hull. The design was right; only this vessel was wrong.
72days afloat
One screen that would say, in five seconds, what the day held. Her own papers record her status for the whole voyage as design phase. She was drawn for ten weeks and never built.
SalvageRebuilt from the keel by a different hand, and now at sea.
72days afloat
Fully rigged and provisioned — the framework, the compiler, the render command all in place — and launched with an empty hold. Her own log says it plainly: the source directory never received a single composition.
SalvageNone recovered. The rigging is still in the yard.
0days afloat
Three civilisations, eight races, twelve Fragments and four seasons of Resonance, all set down in a first edition of the lore. The thing meant to hold that world was a scaffold for a single day. She is the shortest entry in the register and the largest cargo: the world was finished before the vessel.
SalvageThe lore, intact, in a drawer. It never sank — it was never launched.
Four works are shown afloat in the catalogue. Seven are on the bottom, and three hundred and fifty days are down there with them. Both books are the same yard; only one of them was ever meant to be seen.
Dates and days are taken from the yard's own book — the first and the last entry of work on each vessel — not from the day she was wanted or the day she was mourned. The measure under each name is that span, drawn on one scale for all seven. Vessels still at sea are not listed here, and vessels belonging to other yards are nobody's business but theirs.