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Tornel Station — Catcher & Corridor Control

The outpost that holds the mouth of the Rivas Corridor: a golden-age catcher station that throws ships out along the lane and catches what comes back, by momentum exchange, on a schedule the whole region depends on. "Tornel, this is Lodestar" — the name on every approach call in the corridor. A working frontier installation, populated, ageing, and carrying more throughput than it was built for.

SUNDGREN COMBINE · CORRIDOR INFRASTRUCTURE
DRAWING RC-TS-01 / SHT 1 OF 1 · GENERAL ARRANGEMENT
FRONTIER BLOC · OPERATIONAL
RIVAS CORRIDOR · N.T.S. · GOLDEN-AGE BUILD
RIVAS CORRIDOR · TRANSIT LINE → INWARD CATCHER RING MOMENTUM-EXCHANGE SLING · THROWS OUT · CATCHES IN CONTROL CORE CORRIDOR CONTROL · TRAFFIC + TIMING HABITATION POPULATED · DEPENDENT SETTLEMENTS DOWNSTREAM DOCKS NOTE · THE CATCHER IS GOLDEN-AGE HARDWARE KEPT IN SERVICE BECAUSE DEPENDENT SETTLEMENTS NEED THE THROUGHPUT. IT IS UNDER STRAIN.
FUNCTION
ROLECORRIDOR CONTROL
METHODMOMENTUM CATCHER
LANERIVAS CORRIDOR
CALLSIGN"TORNEL"
BUILD
ERAGOLDEN-AGE
STATEAGEING · STRAINED
CREWPOPULATED
THROUGHPUTABOVE RATING
CONTROL
BLOCFRONTIER
OPERATORSUNDGREN COMBINE
DIRECTORM. STRAND
DEPENDENTSDOWNSTREAM
REGISTRY
STATIONTORNEL
REGIONTHE REACH
ERA~2240
STATUSOPERATIONAL
SUBJECT
TORNEL STATION · CATCHER & CORRIDOR CONTROL · RIVAS CORRIDOR
DRAWING
RC-TS-01 / 1
SCALE
N.T.S.
BLOC
FRONTIER
ERA
~2240
STATUS
OPEN

Frontier infrastructure does the impossible thing every day until the day it doesn't. Tornel throws ships down the corridor and catches them coming home, and a whole string of settlements eats and breathes on the strength of that schedule holding. The note at the bottom is the only worrying line on the sheet, and it is the reason there is a story here at all.