The Reach · Vessel
Ostrand
Frontier-compact light freighter. Holed amidships, drive gone, venting air; carried 19 souls (10 crew + 9 relay-station evac taken aboard when their station went dark).
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 freighter. Holed amidships, drive gone, venting air; carried 19 souls (10 crew + 9 relay-station evac taken aboard when their station went dark).
Role
The real rescue that springs the network-war trap (a true call used as bait). Its 19 survivors are saved; the freighter itself is left derelict. NOT a casualty of people — a casualty of place.
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 Only sections that are settled canon are shown — drafting notes and anything belonging to an unpublished book are held back.