The Argent Tide Universe
The Argent Tide moves freight and secrets along the fractured trade lanes of the solar system. These are some of the people who keep the ship running — and the choices that shape what the Tide becomes.
Crew of the Argent Tide
Each character stands alone in their own story, but all of them are bound to the same ship, the same lanes, and the same systems of power.
Meira Solen
A former mercenary hired by Halifax after an incident in the Carthane Loop, Solen commands the ship’s security operations with quiet precision. Known for her hard edge and unexpected compassion, she’s rumored to have once spared a man she was ordered to kill. Few know the full story — or what it still costs her.
Layna Terrell
Brilliant under pressure and quietly defiant of protocol, Terrell reads stellar routes the way others read body language. She does the math and sees patterns in deep-space drift no algorithm can explain. Trusted by the Captain for life saving calcs.
Helena Varrick
Seasoned and steady, Varrick has spent her career navigating Halifax’s corporate demands while keeping her crew alive in the margins between contracts. Distrustful of her employers and loyal to her people above all else, she knows that in the trade lanes, survival depends on who you choose to stand beside.
Kael Stroud
A company man through and through, Stroud keeps the mission profitable no matter what the manifests say. He’s made a career out of cutting corners that don’t bleed too loudly and smoothing problems with the right favors at the wrong times. To Halifax, he’s efficient. To everyone else, he’s a reminder that loyalty and debt often share the same ledger.
Juno Saito
A black-market operator with ties to the syndicates that thrive on Venus and in the Carthane Loop. With one foot in Halifax’s shadow economy and the other in its clean corridors, she moves through the Tide like a faint whisper—heard only when Meira Solen chooses to listen.
Thane Lecarno
A disciplined researcher with a haunted past, Lecarno balances curiosity with caution in humanity’s race to reclaim lost knowledge. His calm intellect and field instincts make him indispensable to Captain Varrick’s crew, but his encounter with the alien device known as Anselm forces him to question where the line lies between discovery and obsession.
Tariq Mendes
Tariq Mendes is the technical heart of the Argent Tide. A seasoned engineer with decades of experience, he keeps the ship alive under conditions most crews wouldn’t survive. Calm, precise, and quietly relentless, Tariq trusts machines more than people—and for good reason. When systems fail, he doesn’t panic. He adapts.