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The Tenth Suspension
Halvard B is a surface maintenance platform on the Ravn Field, 214 km west of Stavanger in the Norwegian sector, holding three subsea wellheads and a manifold in service through the winter gas nomination.
- ~236 min (estimated)
- 52060 words
- 86 scenes
- 8 branch points
- 5 endings
34 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
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About
Nine people are aboard. The platform is powered by the Kell-9, a 9 MW thermal lead-cooled fast reactor built in 2019, because there is no cable and nobody is coming with one. On the first page, in the control room at 06:40 on day one, Ilse Ravn says the whole thing out loud, because there is no point not to. The Kell-9 has been suspended eight times. Each suspension is a thermal cycle through the core vessel and the control-rod drive seals, and the design life is ten. The tenth suspension is the last one the reactor will survive. The replacement core module, the Kell-10, was due on the MV *Anemone* at 06:00 that morning, and the supplier cancelled it at 04:50 because the hull section failed its ultrasonic inspection and the earliest new date is day 118. There is 456 hours of fuel in the Kell-9, which is nineteen days at the current load, and there is no way to make it more. Then they wor
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- a workplace ration of intimacy between two colleagues, agreed out loud in the room and scheduled on a public whiteboard
- an explicit written adult sexual encounter at twenty past four in the morning, inside an engineering argument
- a professional relationship destroyed between two people who were both good at the job, in the open, with no betrayal
- the loss of a shared project, a subsea field, to a vibration figure that nobody could have argued with
- a reactor operated outside its certified envelope, and the procedural consequences of doing so
- institutional indifference expressed as procedure: a cancelled core, an expired certificate, a berth left unallocated
- a medical drug count performed in public, and a recompression chamber booked for a reason nobody states
- a hard moral choice with no option that costs nothing
Cast
- I Ilse Ravn protagonist, licensed shift supervisor, the only named licence on Halvard B, and the person who keeps the fuel column and the list no portrait yet
- Y Yannick Osei the person the protagonist wants, and the man who put the sentence on the wall no portrait yet
- I Ingrid Sundvik platform manager, the procedure, and the only person on the platform who does not need anything no portrait yet
- N Nadia Okonjo medic, hyperbaric physician's assistant, and the person who counts out loud no portrait yet