PBN NEWS WIRE · 17 JULY 1953 · USS NEBRAHOMA STILL MISSING · 4,462 ABOARD · SEARCH CONTINUES

A Planetary Broadcast Network adventure

Ride the wave.
Save the crew.

The Navy's newest carrier has vanished in the Pacific. Micro-nations with impossible airships are redrawing the map. You command the destroyer USS Maine York on an ocean that moves your ship for you. Every soul you pull from the sea is logged by name.

“To Mr. and Mrs. America, and to all the ships at sea…”PBN Evening News · cold open · 17 July 1953

Main story

Unrest in the South Pacific

“Regular listeners know that there's still no sign of the USS Nebrahoma, which disappeared in the region one week ago today. Extended search-and-rescue efforts have discovered no wreckage, nor any members of the ship's full complement of sailors.”

Hear the report0:55

4,462

souls aboard the Nebrahoma,
“most of whom were aboard,” per the Navy.

In Wavy Navy, every castaway you rescue is read onto the tally board by name and hometown and logged on the Muster Roll.

The ocean is the game

A sea that moves you

The wave owns your vertical

Steer left and right; the swell lifts and drops your hull. A crest gives you a firing line. A trough hides you. Dodging is timing the sea.

Every soul counts

Downed enemy aircrew drift down under grey-teal canopies. Put your hull beneath them to take prisoners, and prisoners mean Intel. Castaways from the sea join the Muster Roll.

The broadcast is the interface

Each chapter is a dated 1953 PBN broadcast: a Dixon cold open, sorties as the program, the upgrade shop as a live sponsor read, a clattering teletype after-action report.

Session-perfect

Three- to five-minute sorties. Instant restart. One hand on a phone, couch-ready on a desk. Five oceans, five airship bosses, a warship that visibly grows.

Deck SwabSignal HandLookoutQuartermasterEnsignLieutenantCaptainAdmiralSecretary of the HeptagonPresident

The promotion ladder. Each rank has its own brass-band jingle. Only the hardest seas lead to the White House.

Before every sortie

The Chip Moses Forecast

PBN's Chief Meteorologist reports green hail with the same composure as pollen counts. Choose an ocean.

Ship's company and persons of interest

Who's Who on the High Seas

Admiral Lillian Stern
Admiral Lillian Stern Commander of the missing USS Nebrahoma. Orders arrive by videophone: terse, controlled, and maybe not entirely honest.
Lieutenant Starr
Lt. Starr Your aide on the bridge. Argues with Norfleet between sorties.
Lieutenant Norfleet
Lt. Norfleet Reports that all systems are nominal, and delivers the damage reports when they are not.

Persons of interest

Admiral Saaga Incorporated Republic of Nurowwa · South Pacific
Captain Nagendra United Democratic Republic of Crustacean Rock · Indian Ocean
Captain Drishti Crustacean Rock · Indian Ocean
Captain Henry Penn Independent Republic of Free Capitalist Possum Island · Atlantic
Vice Admiral Euphrasia de Lestonnac Archipelago of Saint-Genevieve · Atlantic
Captain Utkin November Glorious Uprising Island State · Arctic
Captain Pasternak Vyprygnut Iz Shtanov Atoll · Arctic
Captain Orlov Allegiance unclear. Hints that Admiral Stern is the key.

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