Junction
the Causeway
The chokepoint junction that controls access to a whole deep-frontier region — whoever holds it holds the door to everything beyond. A braided junction (multiple "mouths" / a "certified braid"; cold-lane folds on the approach).
Type
junction
Position
Canon has not established a position
Classification
Certified shared by the Reach Accord — provenance-locked on the network. The instant the sharing fails, the one junction in the Reach worth taking entire; the Combine invokes a pre-drafted emergency-security instrument to sei
Wound state
The Drag observable surfaces in the lane survey data that feeds the certification (Delgado's data; surfaced at Aureline, carried to the Causeway). Not explained on-page. Ralhun reads a Nhál-only natural ha
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 capstone (Act V, –28). Cross authorises certifying the Causeway as shared + controlled disclosure despite Delgado's raw Drag data (his control-as-mercy error) — the certification stands committed on the network, provenance-locked. Ralhun's withheld Nhál-only warning costs lives. Castellan times/frames the leak; the Accord breaks at the Far Concord (–26). The seam war's first shots: Quint's Sundog destroys the survey sloop Pellan (First Blood,). The Causeway changes hands as the Pellan's scatter cools — the war's first pri