The Reach · Vessel
A civilian convoy hauler — built to carry water reclaim, pressed into carrying people: forty-one displaced civilians off two colonies coreward of the gap, riding strapped to the deck and bulkheads. No medical officer aboard (the Lodestar sends Dr. Nadia Petrov across to triage). Lights run low, power hoarded against…
Designation
convoy-freighter
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
A civilian convoy hauler — built to carry water reclaim, pressed into carrying people: forty-one displaced civilians off two colonies coreward of the gap, riding strapped to the deck and bulkheads. No medical officer aboard (the Lodestar sends Dr. Nadia Petrov across to triage). Lights run low, power hoarded against the jump.
The on-page vessel of the B5 continuance thread (the HOPE-line). Carries the Thorne family (Senna + the life-object), the pregnant passenger Ferreira, a boy with a bad chest, three dehydrated elderly passengers — forty-one souls total. Per the continuance schedule: goes dark under Maddox (Act II, assumed lost; birth-in-the-dark), reappears by dead reckoning mid-final-battle (Act III, survives but pays), and a child from it reaches Cole's fire in the close.
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 Only sections that are settled canon are shown — drafting notes and anything belonging to an unpublished book are held back.
