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Méridienne Station
A mountain shelter, 143 survivors, a failing turbine and a Board that may lie. Thirty-one strangers knock at the door. Who eats, who comes in, who decides?
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The story so far
Eleven years after the Grey darkened the sky, Méridienne Station, an old observatory and civil-defence shelter cut into an Alpine summit, still keeps 143 people alive: a turbine on an underground stream, a hydroponic Garden under pink lamps, a Council, a Charter, and every morning, chalked on the Board, the number of days left.
Tonight the Board says sixty-four days of food. The turbine's bearing sings a little higher every day. The Lower Deck, who run the machines, eat less than the Founders who run the Council. And in the grey rain, thirty-one survivors from the coast knock on the blast door: nine children, a nurse, an old machinist, a sick man, and a young woman who flinches at the sound of sledge bells.
The Council votes tomorrow at noon. Three weeks from now the thaw will open the pass. In between, decide who eats, who comes in and who decides, deal with a rival community that owns the valley's only lights, and live with what you chose: here, every decision comes back. A long sandbox of community, survival and conscience, for one hero or a group.
People you might meet
Hélène Varga
Director of Méridienne Station and chair of its Council, a former astronomer
The Director of Méridienne Station: a sixty-one-year-old astronomer who has kept 143 people alive for eleven years, and who has stopped sleeping.
Ophélie Brun
Lock-keeper of Méridienne Station: airlock, decontamination, masks and filters, and the Lock ledger
The Lock-keeper: a Warden who runs the airlock, the decontamination and its ledger, and who decides, every night, whether to answer the intercom.
Lucien Abadie
Quartermaster of Méridienne Station: stores, rations, Vault C and the morning Board
The station's quartermaster and keeper of the Board, a gentle accountant who chalks the morning numbers and is quietly falling apart.
Captain Bastien Royer
Chief of the Wardens, the station's security and order
Chief of the Wardens: a former gendarmerie captain with a rifle, a clipboard and a plan for the worst case, who believes the station will die of kindness.
Dr. Salomé Kessler
Doctor of Méridienne Station, in charge of the Infirmary and the medicine cupboard
The station's only doctor: a former mountain-rescue physician, brusque, tireless, and the one person in the station who will say that a number is a person.
Odile Marchetti
Schoolteacher of the station, Founder and Councillor, reader on Radio Méridienne
The oldest woman in the station, its schoolteacher and its memory, who reads on Radio Méridienne every night and who says out loud what the Council would rather not hear.
Mado Ferrand
Forewoman of the Turbine Hall and unofficial leader of the Lower Deck
The turbine forewoman and the Lower Deck's voice: a former dam engineer who keeps the station's heart beating and is tired of eating Tier C for it.
Kofi Mensah
Keeper of the Garden, the station's hydroponic farm
The keeper of the Garden: a gentle agronomist from Accra who came to the door alone in the second winter and grows a third of the station's food under pink lamps.
Théo Ferrand
Runner and duct-crawler of the Lower Deck, unofficial scout of the plateau
Mado's sixteen-year-old son: a thin, quick, clever runner who knows every duct in the station and goes out at night where nobody is allowed to go.
Yasmin Haddad
Leader of the convoy from the coast, a hospital nurse
The convoy's leader: a hospital nurse from Marseille who has walked thirty-one people three hundred kilometres to a door that will not open.
Iris Leclerc
A young traveller with the convoy, map-reader, mechanic and hunter
A young woman in the convoy who joined it in the valley three weeks ago, quick-witted and well-fed, who keeps her face hidden whenever a sledge passes on the road.
Gaspard Roux
Machinist of the convoy, a retired shipyard foreman
The convoy's oldest walker: a sixty-eight-year-old machinist from the La Ciotat shipyards with ruined lungs, gnarled hands and the knowledge to turn a turbine bearing on a lathe.
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