Missions
The operations that define her — rescues, blockades, and one flight into a dying star. All fictional in-world missions.
The Reckoning — Cycle 1164
Role: civilian (pre-StarTeam) · Outcome: docks held
The Ashen raid on Port Selene’s docks at dawn. No team, no plan, no training — just a fifteen-year-old with six months of self-taught control standing on a broken dock ring. Forty minutes, three disabled skiffs, one starburst crater. When the StarTeam arrived, they found her sitting in the middle of it, crying and glowing. The mission that made her a legend before she was ever a recruit.
The Theros Relay Rescue — Cycle 1166
Role: first solo command · Outcome: 400 evacuated, 0 lost
A colony relay station’s hull breached during a meteor storm. Neris held the Starlume Barrier across a thirty-meter tear for nine minutes while Lyra ran evacuation shuttles through the gap. She blacked out the moment the last shuttle cleared. Woke up in medbay to find Flick had already upgraded her suit “so you stop doing that.” The mission that proved she could lead, not just fight.
The Kestrel Reach Blockade — Cycle 1166
Role: blockade runner · Outcome: blockade broken, accords signed
The Ashen blockaded four colony worlds to starve them into surrender. Neris ran the blockade thirty-one times in six days — starflight through picket lines, Stardust Blasts opening corridors for supply ships, and one open-channel broadcast (“You can’t outrun the dark. But you can outshine it.”) that the colonies still play on their independence days. The Kestrel Accords followed: the StarTeam’s first major diplomatic victory, won on the back of a sixteen-year-old’s refusal to leave.
The Nursery Convoy — Cycle 1167
Role: escort · Outcome: convoy safe
A convoy of nursery ships — literal children — fleeing an Ashen advance. The least glorious mission on this list and the one Neris talks about most. “Nobody writes songs about escorting toddlers,” she told the team afterward. “They should.” Twelve days of uneventful patrol. She considers it her finest work.
The Eclipse Siege — Cycle 1167
Role: corona insertion · Outcome: eclipse engine destroyed
The Ashen Voidfleet’s eclipse engine — a stellar-scale device built to blot out Veyra’s sun — reached operational status. The plan needed a wielder who could survive stellar-corona heat to detonate it from inside. The only candidate was the girl with a star in her chest. Neris volunteered before Veyne finished the briefing.
She flew into the corona, held the Starlume Barrier for eleven seconds at point-blank stellar heat, and punched the Violet Starweave through an engine the size of a moon. The Nova State took her; she woke up four days later in Osei’s medbay with Drax’s broadcast already waiting: “Sen. You and I are not finished.”
The full operational record — timelines, the damper incident, the extraction — is in Missions Archive.
The Patrol Years — Cycle 1168–present
Thirty-one logged missions and counting: piracy interdiction, disaster relief, dampener-tech recovery runs, and the ongoing shadow-war with Drax’s quiet fleet. The current era is defined less by single battles than by the question every page of this site circles: what does the Ashen want with a star’s heart, and what happens when they stop being patient?
Source notes
This page is a fan reference for a fictional character. All missions are invented in-world operations from the StarTeam record as presented in the Vizlings “Neris Sen” character concept. No real people or events are depicted. Images are AI-generated dramatization art produced in-house .