Svalbard, October 2026 to May 2027: the last sun goes down on Longyearbyen, forty kilometres of black fjord separate it from Russian Barentsburg, and a coal mine begins its final winter.

• All characters are adults.
• Terminal occupational lung disease, breathlessness, medical coercion and death.
• A fatal avalanche, whiteout rescue, bodies, injury and disaster aftermath; violence may be graphic where earned.
• Alcohol dependence in the polar night, shown through need, concealment and consequence.
• Research fraud, corporate bribery, institutional rot, job loss and company-controlled housing.
• Russia's war in Ukraine and sanctions pressure are referenced through shipping, suspicion and divided families.
• Norwegian–Russian tension, class contempt and xenophobia show through behaviour and consequence; no slurs are written out.
• Sex cuts away at the door; desire, tension and aftermath stay on the page.
• Never instructional detail for weapons, drug synthesis, intrusion methods or defeating safety systems.

Text-first draft: backgrounds and character art are generated placeholders and there is no audio yet.