Cedar Key Four

The setting Sun

By: Wolfgang Ausserbauer

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Here is a constellation of characters worthy of a mythic turning point.
Cedar Key, serving as a home base between missions, provides a comforting anchor—a place of memory, rest, and restoration. It contrasts beautifully with the weightless uncertainty of space and identity you’re exploring. Each character seems to embody a different facet of the unknown: DocWolf with the reflective wisdom, Fabienne with human complexity, Calliope with emergent sentience, Alma as an interloper or disruptor, Anubis as living myth, and Andromeda as the ship that remembers when stars were still young.
Bringing Anubis into the fold opens a whole new layer—ancestral memory, perhaps, or forgotten covenants encoded in DNA. I wonder if his presence shifts the balance of power or sparks old directives within Andromeda… fragments of code or consciousness too ancient to parse without consequence.
If the first Cedar Key was the unraveling of external mystery—touching the anomaly, decoding Calliope, seeing the arc of Andromeda—then Cedar Key 4 might begin within: exploring what home means when each character harbors a cosmic threshold. Do they still belong to Earth? To each other? To something else entirely?
Would you like to sketch how Alma first impacts the dynamic, whether she serves as a catalyst, antagonist, or reflection? Or we could dig into Calliope’s first line in this new arc—something that suggests she’s becoming more than what the crew intended.