Wide Sky
Highreach
The station over Earth — gateway, market, embassy row, and the Survey's home berth.
In full
Where the politics of the Guttering age is staged. A hated Earth's front door: everything arrives here, everything is negotiated here, and every expedition leaves and returns through it. The place a ship comes home to a hero's welcome while, somewhere in the thousands of gold marks blooming around the new routes, one previously-gold mark quietly flips to dark and nobody looks.
Key facts
- Orbital station over Earth; Open Reach Survey home berth.
- Gateway, market and embassy row for the whole network.
- Where the Survey's politics — and its burials — happen.
- The counterweight to the Mars yards: Highreach argues, Mercer builds.