The Reach · Vessel
Capt. Lena Marchetti's command — a fast, armed Frontier-bloc cutter ("all aerials"), defiantly compact-painted; colony-born Marchetti, Combine-aligned but the Frontier bloc's face, not a corporate warship. NOT a grain-hauler, NOT the heavy hull, NOT a Combine warship.
Designation
patchwork-hull
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.
Converted. Whatever her donor hull had, plus whatever the conversion managed before the schedule ran out.
⚠ 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
Capt. Lena Marchetti's command — a fast, armed Frontier-bloc cutter ("all aerials"), defiantly compact-painted; colony-born Marchetti, Combine-aligned but the Frontier bloc's face, not a corporate warship. NOT a grain-hauler, NOT the heavy hull, NOT a Combine warship.
Command vessel of Capt. Lena Marchetti, the Frontier bloc's fair-rival face who asserts jurisdiction over the Rivas Corridor (B1) and recurs toward the B5 coalition (B3 ally-seed → B4 ordered to fire on people she respects → B5 first to break into the coalition). A fast, armed, defiantly compact-painted Frontier cutter — colony-born, Combine-aligned, but emphatically not a corporate warship or freighter.
Frontier bloc; Marchetti is the bloc's face on the B3 expedition (colony-born, Combine-aligned, not a uniformed corporate officer).
• ISV Lodestar — initially jurisdictional adversary; the two ships act as paired moving catchers in the B1 climactic distributed catch (B1 §14C).
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 Only sections that are settled canon are shown — drafting notes and anything belonging to an unpublished book are held back.
