SS4.0: The Arctic Incident

New Short Story coming soon!

Characters

🧊 Thermal Array-3 Power Research Site
(8 Personnel)

🐾 Command

  • General Marvin Huxley — Site Lead / Command
    (Hunde — French Bulldog)

🧬 Science Team

  • James Earl Jarvis — Lead Scientist
    (Human)

  • Dr. Elena Varga — Thermal Systems Engineer
    (Human)

  • Lucas Kovacs — Scientist Support / Lab Technician
    (Human)

🛠️ Engineering Team

  • Markus Weber — Lead Drilling Engineer
    (Hunde — German Shepherd)

  • Matthias Reinhardt — Drilling Engineer / Support
    (Hunde — St Bernard)

🧑‍💻 Systems & Operations

  • Eugene Park — Communications / Data Analyst
    (Human)

  • Rebecca Collins — Site Operations / Logistics
    (Hunde — Border Collie)

🛷 Arctic Division — Sled Team
(3 Personnel)

  • General Jake “Ice-pick” Husky — Arctic Division Commander / Sled Lead
    (Hunde — Husky)

  • Erik Snow-Hook Halvorsen — Sled Leader / Field Lead
    (Hunde — Husky)

  • Sanna “Pulse-Check” Korhonen — Sled Leader / Medical
    (Hunde — Husky)

One thought on “SS4.0: The Arctic Incident

  1. Craig's avatar Craig 22 Mar, 2026 / 21:51

    We have a new short story in the works a prequel to The Great Collapse. In this short story we will meet Sebastion Jarvis’ father, James Jarvis, the lead scientist for the Thermal Array-3 Power Research Project.

    On a remote high-Arctic research site known as TA-3, an international team led by General Huxley and scientist James Jarvis begins testing a new geothermal energy system beneath deep permafrost. The project is successful—but the unexpected heat output melts surrounding frozen layers, exposing ancient, well-preserved organic material. Early anomalies are subtle and dismissed as environmental contamination. Then a severe Arctic storm isolates the site, pushing systems and personnel to their limits. As conditions deteriorate, a one-shot emergency evacuation is ordered. Jake “Ice-pick” Husky and his sled team arrive to extract the eight-person crew under extreme conditions. With no capacity for a second run, difficult decisions are made. Some research material is taken. Decontamination is incomplete. The team survives. The mission appears successful. Unnoticed, something small leaves the site with them—seeding a chain of events that will, years later, lead to the Great Collapse.

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