Echo in the Hangar

Fifteen minutes of terror. Twenty-three hours and forty-five minutes of waiting.
You play the pilots, the ghosts, and the echoes of a war that won’t let go.

What is Echo in the Hangar?

Echo in the Hangar is a narrative tabletop roleplaying game about what happens after the mission. Not the explosions, but the silence. Not the heroics, but the rituals. Not the stats, but the Spiral.

Powered by the Stack & Spiral Core Engine, this game uses poetic framing, minimal mechanics, and rotating facilitation to explore memory, loss, and emotional drift.

Play as a broken squadron spiraling together toward collapse. Carry rituals. Trigger flaws. Lose someone. And then return—as an Echo—to whisper from the margins.

Features:

• Spiral-Based Structure: Play in three phases: Pre-Launch → Debrief → Hangar

• Lightweight Mechanics: Function Stack, Flaws, and Spiral Points drive emotional tension

• Echo Protocol: When you're lost, you haunt. Voice still matters.

• GM-optional: Supports shared facilitation and ritualized scene building

• Safety & Consent Tools Built-In: Because the mission comes second. The table comes first.

What Makes This Game Different?

Most mech games give you the fifteen minutes of terror.
Echo in the Hangar gives you the rest of the day.

It’s for players who want to spiral together—not through combat, but through absence, memory, and quiet collapse.

This is Vibe RPG’ing: low dice, high resonance, and emotional weight over mechanical reward.
If you’ve ever mourned a callsign more than a character sheet, this is your game.

Credits:

Designed by: HK Kahng (Grey Ledger Society)
With recurring assistance from: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, NotebookLM
“This was never a solo sortie.”

Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0

Community & Support

Join us at greyledger.org for scenario drops, tone experiments, and new spiral expansions like Echoes Beyond the Hangar.