System
Corran
The inhabited system downstream of the Weir — the sky the road loads and, in time, puts out.
Type
system (inhabited — logged in the coalition's catalogue)
Within
sable-reach
Position
The Sable Reach chart
On the chart
The Sable Reach
Placement
published — The Closing Sky ch17 onward — "a sky," "a system," never a named world
Description
Everything the prose fixes, and no more: It is in the coalition's own catalogue — "logged, and peopled" (,,,). Geneva's counsel calls it "the sky, unnamed and uncounted on any Earth chart" — it is on no Earth chart, and the coalition catalogued it themselves. It has a sun with time left in it. "An ordinary morning under a sun that still has a while left in it" (,,,,). It has people under that sun — "people under it who had never heard the name of the road that would put their sun out"; "people the Dawnward would never meet". No number, no species statement, no origin. Position: downstream and reach-side of the Weir. "On the far side of that curve"; "downstream, reach-side… where the new lane…
Classification
Catalogued by the reach coalition (Rade's fleet's own bookkeeping); the record Vale used was taken unsealed and off every sanctioned line. Not on any Earth chart, and outside every party's representation at the throat. Unrepresented at the drafting of the Cairn Compact, and carried into the record only as Vale's appended reservation.
Population
"People under it." No population figure, no settlement, no government, no representative — the absence is the point: Corran is the first unrepresented sky in the founding document of the age.
Wound state
Characters state the observed law and its arithmetic; nobody in Book 3 goes further, and nothing here should.
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