Mascon.
SHELTER VESPER-4 · LIVE AT 050 M

The shelter is a core sample. You read it by descending.

No wall of equal cards, no command panel. Mascon stacks the habitat by depth — surface dust, the airlock, the pressurized core where one person breathes, then bedrock and the mass below. A meter ruler keeps you oriented the whole way down.

000 m
025 m
050 m
How it reads

Every section is a stratum. Depth is the hierarchy.

000–018 m

Surface regolith

Loose lunar dust over the buried module. Navigation and context live up here, in the light.

018–070 m

Pressurized core

Where the operator stands. Oxygen, pressure and thermal read out as a live dot-matrix.

070–200 m

Bedrock + mascon

Anchor stress and the mass concentration below. Deepest, densest, quietest — risk surfaces here.

050 m
065 m
080 m
Life-support core

Read where the air comes from.

O₂ partial pressure
21.4kPa
Cabin pressure
100.6kPa
Thermal loop
+38°C
100 m
150 m
200 m
Pre-EVA

Risk lives at the bottom of the core.

118 m · anchor

Bedrock stress nominal

Shelter mass settled into bedrock; no creep on the watch interval.

164 m · coolant
−6kPa/hr

Coolant return micro-leak. Isolate before the airlock cycle.

200 m · mascon

Gravity bias logged

Mass concentration noted at +12 mGal. Recorded, no action.