Horror stories like these remain a major part of Day of the Vara. Stories would vary about what would happen to those who encountered the ship but all of them touched on fears surrounding space travel: sometimes the undead crew would secretly board passing vessels to sabotage vital systems other stories had them haunt the living until they went insane and vented their own ship in some, scavengers would happen across an abandoned spacecraft, only for the frozen bodies aboard to come alive at the worst possible moment. People began to avoid flying through it on the anniversary of the Vara’s demise because on that day, the ship and her crew would supposedly return from the dead and haunt the system. In the years following this disappearance, rumors spread among haulers and travelers that something malevolent lurked in the Hades system. No wreckage or remains were ever located. Though search and rescue teams were dispatched the next day, the Vara and her crew were nowhere to be found.
Systems on board ceased transmitting ship status reports a few hours later. Communications from the Vara to the Rhetor system stopped early in the morning, after captain Tisiphone Heptane sent her initial impressions of the ruined alien cities.
The holiday first originated around 27 October 2557 after the disappearance of the Vara, an exploration vessel orbiting the second planet in the then-recently discovered Hades system. It is seen by Humans as a day that gives equal weight to the joy of life and the macabre. Celebrants dress up as people who have passed away or in other costumes and swap scary stories, especially pertaining to mysterious incidents in space. The holiday involves public festivals adorned with decorations in black and green and private gatherings convened to remember and honor the dead. Day of the Vara is a holiday celebrated in the United Empire of Earth (UEE) annually on October 27th.
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