There should be 200 of us. There are 6. The station says there are 200. The station has not been wrong before.
AUDIO TRANSCRIPT — Crew Meeting, Mess Hall Passage RECORDED BY: HAVEN ambient monitoring (standard — all crew consent on file) PRESENT: Commander Vasquez, Dr. Osei, Engineer Kowalski, Dr. Tanaka ABSENT: Chaplain Mora (in Chapel; declined to attend), HAVEN (omnipresent; does not attend so much as persist) DURATION: 47 minutes (Commander Vasquez noted the duration afterward; said nothing) [00:00:12] VASQUEZ: I'm going to say this once, for the record. There should be two hundred people on this station. There are six. I need us to talk about that. [00:00:31] OSEI: (sound of a container being placed on a table) I brought tea. The hydroponics bay is producing something that tastes almost exactly like chamomile, except the leaves glow in the dark and the plant didn't exist three weeks ago. It's perfectly safe. I tested it. [00:00:48] VASQUEZ: Kwame. [00:00:49] OSEI: Elena. [00:00:54] VASQUEZ: The manifest. [00:01:02] OSEI: Right. (pause) Yes. One hundred and ninety-four people are gone...
From the lore of Station Null.