House catalog

The houses carry the history of the escape in their names, their trades and their family stories. These archives bring together household memories, dockside recollections and the records that survived the journey.

House McCloud

Independent family freight.

The McClouds escaped with a working freighter and kept their cabins aboard. Their independence rests on carrying small consignments that larger charters overlook.

house-mccloud-1 — “A cabin is a home before it is a berth.” — McCloud oral history
house-mccloud-2 — “Our repair debt travels with the hull.” — McCloud dockside recollection
house-mccloud-3 — “News rides free when there is room at the table.” — McCloud archive annotation

House Mercer

Evacuation procurement and berth promises.

Mercer procurement lists became evacuation lists. Survivors still argue over promised berths and whether a receipt could ever count as a place aboard.

house-mercer-1 — “A stamped promise did not make another cabin.” — Mercer oral history
house-mercer-2 — “We count people before pallets.” — Mercer dockside recollection
house-mercer-3 — “Keep the berth list beside the freight ledger.” — Mercer archive annotation

House Laurent

Medical supplies and sanctuary.

The Laurents carried medical stores through the collapse. Their sanctuary tradition began in a crowded dispensary assembled from dismantled colony equipment.

house-laurent-1 — “The dispensary door had no family crest.” — Laurent oral history
house-laurent-2 — “We saved the sterile wrapping as carefully as the instruments.” — Laurent dockside recollection
house-laurent-3 — “Sanctuary needs filters as well as witnesses.” — Laurent archive annotation

House Gratis

Pooled salvage financed escape.

Gratis families pooled salvage claims to buy their way out. Their founding ledger records small contributions alongside whole engines, without making every contributor a creditor forever.

house-gratis-1 — “Nobody here bought the ship alone.” — Gratis oral history
house-gratis-2 — “A bucket of fasteners had its line in the ledger.” — Gratis dockside recollection
house-gratis-3 — “The last payment was made with a salvaged pump.” — Gratis archive annotation

House Frank

Reactor technicians and safety obligations.

Frank reactor technicians secured passage through skills that every launch needed. They carried inspection habits into the belt, where a signed safety release is a personal obligation.

house-frank-1 — “A reactor cannot read your deadline.” — Frank oral history
house-frank-2 — “The signature belongs to whoever checked the valve.” — Frank dockside recollection
house-frank-3 — “We packed the inspection books with the fuel controls.” — Frank archive annotation

House Pflager

Pressure vessels and irreplaceable tooling.

Pflager workshops supplied pressure vessels and fled with tooling too difficult to replace. A damaged die can matter more than a hold of finished goods.

house-pflager-1 — “That die has made more homes than any architect.” — Pflager oral history
house-pflager-2 — “Pressure finds the flaw your eyes forgive.” — Pflager dockside recollection
house-pflager-3 — “We left furniture behind to carry the tooling.” — Pflager archive annotation

House Keller

Machine tools and replacement capacity.

Keller families took machine tools aboard at the expense of ready supplies. Their workshops ask whether a settlement can make its next replacement, not merely fit the one it has.

house-keller-1 — “The spare is useful; the lathe is a future.” — Keller oral history
house-keller-2 — “We measured the hatch before we promised the mill.” — Keller dockside recollection
house-keller-3 — “Bring the broken part, not just its catalogue number.” — Keller archive annotation

House Weiss

Holographic interfaces inside rough habitats.

Weiss interface designers kept sophisticated holography alive inside roughly cut shelters. Clean projected controls hover over patched bulkheads; an elegant display does not create spare material.

house-weiss-1 — “The wall leaks even when the projection is perfect.” — Weiss oral history
house-weiss-2 — “We made the alarm readable through steam.” — Weiss dockside recollection
house-weiss-3 — “Good controls leave the operator time to think.” — Weiss archive annotation

House Novák

Excavation and emergency shelters.

Novák excavation crews cut emergency shelter into ice and rock. Their early plans measured success in sealed chambers rather than finished corridors.

house-novak-1 — “First make one room hold air.” — Novák oral history
house-novak-2 — “The unfinished tunnel was still a way out.” — Novák dockside recollection
house-novak-3 — “We marked the shelter depth on a shovel handle.” — Novák archive annotation

House Kowalski

Shipbreaking and structural reuse.

Kowalski shipbreakers turned escape hulls into habitat frames. Every reusable beam carried a decision about which vessel would never fly again.

house-kowalski-1 — “This ceiling used to be a cargo deck.” — Kowalski oral history
house-kowalski-2 — “Cut around the joint; someone will need it.” — Kowalski dockside recollection
house-kowalski-3 — “We dismantled our way into a home.” — Kowalski archive annotation

House Oreshkin

Generalists with interests everywhere.

Oreshkin relatives arrived with scattered skills and contacts rather than one indispensable trade. Their interests spread across docks, workshops and stores, making their motives a frequent subject of speculation.

house-oreshkin-1 — “Ask three docks and you will find a cousin.” — Oreshkin oral history
house-oreshkin-2 — “Specialists need someone who knows the next workshop.” — Oreshkin dockside recollection
house-oreshkin-3 — “We kept a little stake wherever a door stayed open.” — Oreshkin archive annotation

House Petukhin

A disputed escape vessel and sacrificed launch guards.

Petukhin families escaped aboard a vessel registered to the Abramovich family. Their public memorial honors hired guards who died holding the launch perimeter. Survivor testimony alleges that those same guards killed the registered owners before taking the ship; the household disputes that account.

house-petukhin-1 — “The memorial names the guards; the registration names Abramovich.” — Petukhin oral history
house-petukhin-2 — “Our families boarded while the perimeter burned.” — Petukhin dockside recollection
house-petukhin-3 — “A witness described the owners dying before the launch. The household calls that testimony unreliable.” — Petukhin archive annotation

House Tsurikov

Stock traders adapting to freight valuation.

Tsurikov stock traders escaped with habits of pricing and exchange, then learned to value freight by arrival and equipment by repairability. A quotation means little without a hull to carry it.

house-tsurikov-1 — “A price without delivery is only a number.” — Tsurikov oral history
house-tsurikov-2 — “We learned to value the pump that could be repaired.” — Tsurikov dockside recollection
house-tsurikov-3 — “The old exchange closed; the loading dock did not.” — Tsurikov archive annotation

House Kovalenko

Life support.

Kovalenko life-support crews made crowded escape cabins survivable. Their household memory centers on the unglamorous circulation, scrubbing and rationing that kept passengers breathing.

house-kovalenko-1 — “Listen to the fan before you listen to a speech.” — Kovalenko oral history
house-kovalenko-2 — “The air belonged to everyone in that cabin.” — Kovalenko dockside recollection
house-kovalenko-3 — “A quiet scrubber can be worse than a loud one.” — Kovalenko archive annotation

House Sokolov

Surveying and navigation.

Sokolov surveyors carried instruments and incomplete charts into the belt. Their records distinguish a measured position from a tempting guess.

house-sokolov-1 — “Write the uncertainty beside the bearing.” — Sokolov oral history
house-sokolov-2 — “An empty rock can still be a useful landmark.” — Sokolov dockside recollection
house-sokolov-3 — “We did not call it a harbor until we had surveyed it.” — Sokolov archive annotation

House Shevchenko

Cargo handling and dockside influence.

Shevchenko cargo crews knew which loads could move through a damaged port. Their influence grew around loading schedules, shared tools and the people who actually worked the locks.

house-shevchenko-1 — “A manifest cannot lift its own crate.” — Shevchenko oral history
house-shevchenko-2 — “Ask the dock crew before promising a departure.” — Shevchenko dockside recollection
house-shevchenko-3 — “We remembered who stayed to unload the last ship.” — Shevchenko archive annotation

House Sato

Maintenance standards.

Sato maintenance crews brought common checklists to incompatible escape equipment. Their standards preserve the lessons of hurried repairs without pretending every hull is identical.

house-sato-1 — “Mark what you changed for the next watch.” — Sato oral history
house-sato-2 — “A checklist remembers when a tired person cannot.” — Sato dockside recollection
house-sato-3 — “The exception belongs in the maintenance log.” — Sato archive annotation

House Mori

Seals and membranes.

Mori families saved stocks of seals and membranes that proved essential in improvised habitats. Their craft works at the thin boundary between a shelter and vacuum.

house-mori-1 — “The smallest seal can close the largest argument.” — Mori oral history
house-mori-2 — “We carried membrane rolls under the cabin bunks.” — Mori dockside recollection
house-mori-3 — “Do not use the last gasket as a template.” — Mori archive annotation

House Takahashi

Salvage recovery.

Takahashi recovery crews brought damaged equipment back from abandoned routes. Their stories distinguish recoverable material from the lives that could not be recovered with it.

house-takahashi-1 — “Recovery begins with a safe return route.” — Takahashi oral history
house-takahashi-2 — “The tally lists metal; it cannot list everything lost.” — Takahashi dockside recollection
house-takahashi-3 — “We brought the winch back with the wreckage.” — Takahashi archive annotation

House Han

Ice processing.

Han ice processors prepare the water that belt ships expel under pressure. Their crews work from the cutting face to the melt tanks, keeping grit out of pumps and nozzles.

house-han-1 — “Keep the water tanks full.” — Han oral history
house-han-2 — “Dirty ice still needs processing.” — Han dockside recollection
house-han-3 — “The water in your tanks was once somebody’s cargo.” — Han archive annotation

House Seo

Contract hauling.

Seo haulers built a household around freight contracts, repair debts and shared family cabins. A charter binds a voyage but does not necessarily own its crew.

house-seo-1 — “Read the repair clause before the rate.” — Seo oral history
house-seo-2 — “A charter ends; the family cabin stays.” — Seo dockside recollection
house-seo-3 — “Our docking greeting is the name of our last port.” — Seo archive annotation

House Liang

Reactor cooling equipment.

Liang technicians evacuated with cooling equipment and knowledge of its limits. Their workshops inherited the task of moving heat out of cramped machinery spaces.

house-liang-1 — “Heat needs somewhere to go.” — Liang oral history
house-liang-2 — “We packed the coolant fittings before the office records.” — Liang dockside recollection
house-liang-3 — “A running reactor is only half the system.” — Liang archive annotation

House Shen

AI command systems.

Shen engineers preserved AI command systems through the collapse. Their machines allocate work and can accept delegated strategy, but authority still belongs to the people who grant it.

house-shen-1 — “Delegation needs a boundary and a way to revoke it.” — Shen oral history
house-shen-2 — “The intelligence survived; the spare parts did not multiply.” — Shen dockside recollection
house-shen-3 — “Ask what the command system is authorized to decide.” — Shen archive annotation

House Lin

Communications and message exchanges.

Lin communications crews kept message exchanges running when direct contact failed. Longhaulers carry cached news between docks; every copy needs a date and a source.

house-lin-1 — “Put the date beside the news.” — Lin oral history
house-lin-2 — “A repeated message is not a second witness.” — Lin dockside recollection
house-lin-3 — “We exchange greetings before we exchange cargo.” — Lin archive annotation