The Reach · Vessel
Brask
A heavy Sundgren Combine grain-hauler (burgundy/oxide Combine livery). Massive — its unfiled extra mass (~eighty tonnes over the filed figure) and drive-wash are the funnel near-miss in Ch4.
Designation
pre-T-class
T4 The Frontier Golden Age · 2240–2246 Merchant derived
What her era can carry. Kinetics baseline. Coil and rail accelerators, finite magazines, point defence, interceptors.
The era that fights a war. The boundary-weapon family is FOUNDED here — the lance descends from the S1B2 coupling aimed at a target's harmonic relationship — and is new, rare and barely understood at the close.
Merchant. Holds and margins. Ordinarily unarmed; a merchant with a magazine is a plot point, not a default.
⚠ A ceiling, not a fit — what a hull of this class could carry in this era, derived from the capability ladder rather than stated for this ship. She may well carry less; she is never shown carrying more. Source: Era tier T4 (bible/48 §3.1 lineage; S11-ENDGAME-LOCK.md) · role inferred from class/description.
The record
Class and design
A heavy Sundgren Combine grain-hauler (burgundy/oxide Combine livery). Massive — its unfiled extra mass (~eighty tonnes over the filed figure) and drive-wash are the funnel near-miss in Ch4.
Mission log
• B3: second hull in the convoy transfer order (after the Lodestar, ahead of the survey sloop Pellan). Its unfiled ~eighty tonnes of extra mass and drive-wash cause the Ch4 funnel near-miss when the light Pellan rides up into its wake; Ruth Ackerman defuses it. All three hulls cross the threshold cleanly.
Authority
Sundgren Combine (Frontier bloc) — commercial freight.
Related hulls
• Pellan — the survey sloop rides up in the Brask's drive-wash (Ch4). • ISV Lodestar — convoy flagship ahead of the Brask.
Compiled from the canon file for this hull. Only sections that are settled canon are shown — drafting notes and anything belonging to an unpublished book are held back.