Spent Light · Vessel
YT-4A Yard-Tender
Tier 3 — support-craft class.
Designation
YT-4A yard-tender (Meridian-program support craft)
Fleet
endurance craft
T4 The Frontier Golden Age · 2240–2246 Deep explorer 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.
Deep explorer. Self-sufficient, long-endurance, heavy stores. Built for absence, not for battle.
⚠ 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
Role
Dockside service, towing, salvage, external maintenance and recovery. The craft that strips wrecks and welds their bones onto the Endurance's patchwork hull as she degrades in the far pocket (cf. Petrel, stripped after her loss). A standard planning fit carries one YT-4A.
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 Only sections that are settled canon are shown — drafting notes and anything belonging to an unpublished book are held back.