Miss Delaney

Miss Delaney is a repossession ship that stops at Schiller Station for repairs before continuing into the Lucerne system. Its crew later receives coordinates connected to the Celestial Aura and succeeds in locating the research vessel after the main Koschei confrontation. The ship takes the Celestial Aura in tow and begins returning toward Corvalis, apparently completing the recovery that the Hard Bargain cannot safely claim. A packet message confirms that the operation initially succeeds. Hours later, Miss Delaney sends a distress call reporting a dark battleship closing on its position while jamming communications. Neither Miss Delaney nor the Celestial Aura reaches Corvalis. The likely IOC interception demonstrates the organization’s ability to remove ships and crews from public record after a sensitive incident. Whether the crew is killed, detained, or absorbed into a classified system remains unknown. Miss Delaney is probably a mid-range pusher comparable in broad function to the Hard Bargain, though sufficiently reliable to tow the Aura over an intersystem route. Its crew appears to have accepted the job as a normal recovery and had no meaningful warning that possession of the target made them witnesses to a Ministry secret.