Ops record // EVA-1 // SC 1204–1219
Missions — Operational Record
Six signature ops, one doctrine: come home with the crew. Every mission on this page is invented fan lore for a fictional character.
The record at a glance
| Op | Date (SC) | Type | Outcome (in-fiction) |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Kestrel Rescue | 1204 | Hull-breach rescue | Passengers moved to lock; Cass recruited |
| Silent Array | 1208 | Storm repair | Array restored at 4% suit power remaining |
| The Driftline Run | 1211 | Jetpack intercept | Tumbling hauler docked by hand |
| Cold Berth | 1214 | Derelict boarding | 14 crew recovered from cryo |
| Tether’s End | 1216 | Severed-tether rescue | Lindqvist recovered; seconds of air to spare |
| The Long Dark | 1219 | Solo hull watch | 72-hour EVA; sensor grid saved |
In-fiction career totals the lore claims: 100+ mission patches on the Vigil’s airlock wall, 40+ vacuum recoveries with zero losses, and more aborted EVAs than most specialists fly — the stat Cass is proudest of.
What “a mission” means for an EVA specialist
Cass’s ops fall into four types, and the fiction treats them as a progression of difficulty:
- Repair — hull breaches, dead arrays, jammed mechanisms. Planned work, known environment, the danger is time and exposure. (Silent Array.)
- Rescue — someone is drifting, or trapped, and the clock is air supply. Planned as far as possible, improvised the rest of the way. (The Kestrel, Tether’s End.)
- Recovery — dead or tumbling hardware that has to be caught, stabilized, or docked by hand. Pure flying. (The Driftline Run.)
- Boarding support — getting the team into places no dock can reach: derelicts, damaged stations, breached hulls. The overlap with Harlow’s world, and the source of the rivalry. (Cold Berth.)
Doctrine: the Cass rules
The lore distills his approach into rules the crew actually follows:
- The suit is the mission. Nothing outside the hull happens until the suit is verified — twice.
- Nobody drifts alone. No solo EVA without a buddy on the line and a second suit ready in the lock.
- Abort is a decision, not a failure. The Vigil’s EVA abort rate tripled after Cass made the roster, and its EVA casualty rate fell to zero (in-fiction). The crew considers this causation, not correlation.
- Come home with the crew. The objective of every op, stated before every airlock cycle.
The ops in brief
The Kestrel Rescue (SC 1204) — the origin. Eighteen-year-old dock apprentice holds a failing seal in a rigger’s work suit for eleven minutes. Not yet StarTeam; already EVA-1 in everything but designation.
Silent Array (SC 1208) — his first year on the roster: rebuilding a solar-array junction during a solar storm, finishing with the suit at 6% power. The op that proved the recruit.
The Driftline Run (SC 1211) — the legend: a two-kilometer solo jetpack intercept of the tumbling hauler Meridian Dawn, docked by hand. Rin’s math, Jinx’s narration, Cass’s nerve.
Cold Berth (SC 1214) — the rivalry op: Cass and Harlow board a derelict together, find fourteen crew alive in cryo-sleep, and bring them all home. The one mission they never argue about — because they never discuss it.
Tether’s End (SC 1216) — the doctrine op: Petra Lindqvist’s tether severed by debris, Cass intercepting on the Driftline rig with seconds to spare. “Nobody drifts alone” stops being a phrase and becomes procedure.
The Long Dark (SC 1219) — the record: seventy-two hours solo on the Vigil’s hull in a debris storm, the longest continuous EVA in StarTeam’s fictional history. Then fourteen hours of sleep.
Source notes
- All missions, dates, and outcomes are invented by this site’s writers; see Methodology.
- Full accounts: Mission Archive; chronology: Timeline.
- Character identity anchor: Vizlings app card (StarTeam), card description “Body space suit hero.”