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The Cairn · Vessel

NV Kestrel

survey hull (converted)

Tier-2 — a CONVERTED EXPEDITIONARY RESPONSE SHIP carrying an embarked mobile wound-and-route authority. Who Holds the Standard, chapter 30 Day 64 of 2334.

Designation

survey hull (converted)

Registry

ISNA (Earth civilian registry)

Fleet

isna fleet

What the prefix means

ReferenceNV

Series

SeriesThe Cairn

Books in the series

BookWho the Door Admits BookWhat First Call Buys BookWho Gets to Answer BookWho Holds the Standard BookWhat the Station Keeps

Rest of the registry

VesselISV Endurance VesselISV Resolute VesselISV Resolute II VesselNV Erika Magnusdóttir VesselNV Persistent Error VesselNV Karl Vidar Pedersen VesselNV Dawnward VesselKindred VesselISV Lodestar VesselMV Tallow VesselISV Rampart VesselNV Longsight

Elsewhere in the archive

Drawn from what this entry actually names — not a curated list, so it grows as the record does.

In the glossary

ISNA
T5 The Guttering Age · 2312–2349 Survey 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.

Survey. Instruments, sensors and boats. Armament nominal at best.

⚠ 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.