← JournalNotes from the Lower Dark
Hadal Bell Squid
Campana hadalis
Abyssalunrecorded — sonar contact only · Drifting · unsurveyed
Field record
The old survey notes describe a bell shape rising and falling on a slow current no one has named, recorded twice from the same sonar station eleven years apart. Nobody has dived deep enough to confirm the shape is what they think it is, and for now the notes are all any of us have.
Marginal note: “known only from two sonar passes, years apart”
Habitat
ZoneThe Lower Dark
Depth range2,100–2,800 m
DiscoveryNo special condition — found simply by piloting close enough to identify it.
Catching it
A Abyssal-tier catch needs at least a Heavy-Gauge Net— anything under that rating can never hold it, whatever the throw. Bought at the Quartermaster’s counter for 850 crystals. A held net inks this entry for good and pays its ledger bonus on the spot.
Ledger bonus on capture+18 Fleet Haul
Full capture mechanics — sighting vs. capture, the aim ring, why a net below a creature’s tier always bursts — in The Ledger.
Sharing this water
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