The Cairn · Vessel
MV Fettle
Civilian Motor Vessel — a tender with tools in her, on the field programme's board.
Designation
motor-vessel
T5 The Guttering Age · 2312–2349 Merchant derived
What her era can carry. Full ordinary armament: coil and rail accelerators · finite kinetic magazines · guided munitions and interceptor missiles · point-defence guns · defensive and sensor-directed lasers · drones, decoys and electronic warfare · advanced kinetic boarding and surface weapons.
The boundary-weapon family exists and is constrained — expensive, signature-heavy, politically fraught. Most hulls of this era are civilian and carry nothing. ⚠ Ordinary traversal needs no chain; a merchant hull is a merchant hull.
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 T5 (bible/48 §2) · role inferred from class/description.
The record
Class and design
MV — the mundane civilian prefix. NOT RV: she authenticates nothing. On a traffic board she is indistinguishable from Tallow, Kedge and Capstan — and that indistinguishability is tactically load-bearing across the whole crossover.
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 Only sections that are settled canon are shown — drafting notes and anything belonging to an unpublished book are held back.