Earth site
Aureline
A newly-terraformed agricultural settlement world — the golden-age dream made literal: a frontier breadbasket the new lane exists to serve. Green and gorgeous from orbit ("a green coin turning below"); harvest-markets; settlers; a valley with its own thin medicine. Believed-in — which is why a B4 blockade/siege of it guts.
Type
city
Position
Canon has not established a position
Classification
Frontier colony world; contested between Centre and Frontier interests; the new lane exists to serve its agriculture.
Population
Settlers; a settler-liaison, Marielle Hewson, who runs the valley's medicine. Tariq Sabine did two years of medical training on Aureline before the money ran out (backstory; he later runs the Spindrift clinic).
Wound state
The Drag/floor observable surfaces here — a faint residual in the new lane's survey data, first read as instrument error (Delgado, –6). The colony world is the one carrying the "bomb" (the Drag seed). Not explained on-page; no cosmology lecture.
Canon has not fixed this place in space, so the archive does not invent a coordinate for it. It appears in the gazetteer as unplaced rather than on the star map as a guess.
On the record
- The expedition's second stop (~Day 9, arrival; ~3-day stay –10; depart ~Day 12,). Survey + showcase; Centre/Frontier reception tension. The Drag/floor observable first surfaces here: Delgado's survey of the new lane's mouth catches a faint residual he first reads as instrument error — the bomb's seed (–6). Marielle Hewson, settler-liaison, runs the valley's medicine.