Ghostline Story Files

Chapter Archive

A clean reading hub for the first twelve Voidjackals chapters. The story is being built, organized, and expanded into a full universe database.

Current Story Lock: 12 Chapters Website Build Phase
Total Chapters 12
Current Focus Website
Status Organizing
Series Voidjackals

Story Files

Each card tracks the chapter title, summary, major characters, locations, and current page status.

Chapter01

Escape From Test Ship Gamma

Malak Voss and Elias Rune escape the Federated Colonies special programs facility aboard the prototype cruiser that will become the Ghostline.

Malak Elias Ghostline Origin
Chapter02

Draxos Run

Malak and Elias travel to Draxos, meet Torren, forge the ship registry, and complete a suspiciously well-paid smuggling job to Ornos.

Draxos Torren Ship Name
Chapter03

Ghosts of Khepri

On the brutal scrapyard moon of Khepri-9, Brakk and Rhea Mercer struggle to survive under Sage Republic control while the Ghostline unknowingly drifts toward the future members of its crew.

Brakk Rhea Khepri-9 Sage Republic
Chapter04

Tanto Choco Bar

The Ghostline crew takes a suspicious pickup job on Vandros. A failed rendezvous, a distant explosion, and corrupted footage point toward one wounded survivor: Aya Miles.

Vandros Aya Foreshadowing Mystery
Chapter05

Shadow Step

Malak and Elias find Aya critically wounded and hunted by her former assassin order. Amir confronts her, and Malak chooses to save her despite the danger.

Aya Amir Assassin Order
Chapter06

The Mountain

Aya Miles remembers life before the Ghostline, from the brutal undercity of Drexus to the assassin order that shaped her into Shadow Step.

Aya Drexus The Order The Mountain
Chapter07

The Voidjackals

Aya slowly adjusts to life aboard the Ghostline. A medical supply job to Blackwake Reach tests the crew, ending with Malak revealing their Voidjackals jackets.

Blackwake Reach Crew Bond Jackets
Chapter08

Our Very Special Ship

At Iron Haven, Malak accepts a suspiciously high-paying extraction job. The ambush that follows showcases the Ghostline’s dangerous Gamma Drive abilities.

Iron Haven Marx Gamma Drive
Chapter09

Quiet Engines

The Ghostline crew works with a covert Sol Covenant contact to investigate mysterious evacuation patterns spreading across multiple worlds while larger powers move quietly in the background.

Sol Covenant Evacuated Worlds Mystery
Chapter10

The Space Cowboy

While monitoring mysteriously evacuated Federation colonies for the Sol Collective, Aya learns more about Malak’s past as Elias uncovers evidence the evacuations are following a deliberate vector through space.

Ghost Worlds Sol Probes Federation Mystery
Chapter11

Xenon

The crew discusses the mystery of the First before traveling to the independent Xenon system, where Elias and Brakk haggle for drones while Malak, Rhea, and Aya discover Aya’s dangerous relationship with alcohol and karaoke.

Xenon The First Xenith Crew Downtime
Chapter12

The Obvious Choice

The crew accepts a stealth job inside Xenara’s restricted black-site facility, where Aya becomes the obvious choice for infiltration and Elias uncovers a prototype weapon tied to impossible technology.

Aya Xenara Elias The First Prototype Weapon