Dockwright - Nathan Ferhart

Ships rarely arrive broken. They arrive tired.

Theo is a dockwright on Kheiron Station, a quiet technician trusted to keep vessels moving and systems aligned. He repairs what others overlook, approves what others ignore, and asks few questions. But when a racing team arrives under rare truce authority, routine work begins to shift. Logs shorten. Archives change. Conversations repeat as if memory itself is being edited.

As Theo is pulled deeper into the machinery behind the races, he starts to notice patterns hidden beneath procedure. A pilot named Alex flies closer to the edge with every run, guided by systems that may no longer belong to him. Authorities tighten control while records quietly disappear, leaving Theo with a choice between the comfort of protocol and the risk of understanding what the station is becoming.

Dockwright is a quiet, atmospheric science fiction novel about labor, memory, and the invisible forces shaping the future. Set within a world of orbiting arenas and silent hangars, it explores what happens when ordinary work becomes an act of resistance, and when seeing clearly is the most dangerous skill of all.