The Reach · Vessel
Corvale
Frontier-compact light hauler. Holed, civ aboard, dropping air — the second true distress, spanward and further out than the Ostrand.
Designation
convoy-freighter
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
Frontier-compact light hauler. Holed, civ aboard, dropping air — the second true distress, spanward and further out than the Ostrand.
Role
The second true call — the one the trap counted on Mercer being unable to answer. The cost of the rescue-trap: a real ship with civ aboard, left to die because the right call and the fatal call were the same call. Event, not ceremony.
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 Only sections that are settled canon are shown — drafting notes and anything belonging to an unpublished book are held back.