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The Reach · 2240

The Rivas Corridor

The Sundgren Combine’s sling-and-catch transport region — the theatre of The Wrong Number. Mass-driver “slings” fling supply pods across the system on a flat ballistic line, and a chain of decelerator rings catches them at Tornel, gentle as freight. Crewed ships don’t run supplies here; they escort. Schematic, not celestial: positions are narrative.

Spoiler note: this chart shows the shape of The Reach, Book One.

the launch the line the catch Lodestar’s run the riders The Sling — An electromagnetic mass-driver at the corridor’s launch end — it flings cargo and supply pods across a third of a system on a flat ballistic line. A golden-age advancement; bulk haulage automated and fast, enabled by two decades of Nhál-assisted power and materials. The Sling 024·000 The Rivas Line — The cargo trajectory itself — pods by the dozen crossing the dark on a flat ballistic line, until the catcher chain talks them down. The empty tug that opens The Wrong Number is shepherding this stream. The Rivas Line Sennen — A half-terraformed moon built around an obsolete sling complex — partial open sky under unfinished atmospheric engineering, excavated launch trenches, old catcher hardware turned to housing, human-and-Nhál workers. The catch-rider town. Sennen 096·-45 The Catcher Chain — A lattice of decelerator rings strung along the Rivas line — each ring reaches out with fields no eye can see, takes a falling mountain by the shoulders, sheds a sliver of its murder, and hands it gentler to the next, down the chain. The ‘mitt’. The Catcher Chain 151·000 Tornel — Station control and the catcher-chain docks. Where a pod that crossed the system as a weapon arrives as freight — grain, coil-stock, printer-feed — the ordinary substance of a dozen colonies that will eat this winter because of it. Tornel 210·000 The Drifting Junction — The corridor’s anchor junction. After every human fault is fixed — the cover-up exposed, the clocks corrected — it is still drifting. Slightly. Not enough to have caused the accident; enough to prove the accident exposed something rather than created it. Shown, never named. The Drifting Junction 172·057 024 048 072 096 120 143 167 191 215 0044 0008 0-27 0-63 SEAM CHART THE RIVAS CORRIDOR · ISCA NAV · SCHEMATIC NOT TO SCALE · NARRATIVE LAYOUT ◄ THE SLING TORNEL · THE CATCH ►

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Alliance break
Sealed / non-navigable

Who Holds What

Sundgren Combine · the freight power
Catch-riders · corridor salvage-pirates
ISV Lodestar · the escort
The drift · what survives the fix

Locations

This is a schematic, not an astronomical chart. The far pocket shares no coordinates with the home network — positions here are narrative, showing the Endurance's dead-reckoning track, not real-sky positions. See the other charts, or the Seam chart.