Wide Sky · Vessel
Jae Wells's independent survey boat (The Closing Sky, ≈2318 — one year after the Sable throat).
Designation
reach-built survey boat (stub-nosed; ~40-yr frame)
Service
Commissioned ~2278 (frame age ≈40 yr before B3; not Wells's purchase date)
Complement
3 (Wells + Oret + Sarn)
Home port
(itinerant — the reach; no fixed berth)
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.
The record
• Wells — owner/master/surveyor (the not-naïve yes; her S12 landing, seeding the mixed crews of S13 / the Cairn). • Oret — Nhál crewmate (an ordinary shipmate; firewall-clean). • Sarn — reach-born apprentice, nineteen.
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 Only sections that are settled canon are shown — drafting notes and anything belonging to an unpublished book are held back.
