System
the Sable Reach
Contested ground: rival powers, freebooters, the Veray, and the Ferren of Ostry.
Type
region (deep cluster / newly-reachable reach)
Position
The Sable Reach chart
On the chart
The Sable Reach
Description
A newly-opened reach charted via the Span. "Dark on the ledger" until a ship seeds nodes and makes first authenticated observations. "Isn't empty and isn't safe" — contested by rival powers and freebooters, "at least one of whom hates the Earth flag on the hull" (Rade's Veray). Contains Ostry (the Ferren world), the Veray-held systems, and the Sable throat chokepoint where the Cairn sits.
Classification
A deep-space region / cluster (multiple systems), not a single body.
Wound state
By The Cairn the reach's sky is the first humanity's own road visibly damaged.
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On the record
- Opened and first-charted by the NV Dawnward; the road seeded; contact and conflict.
- The Sable corridor licensed, industrial, "the artery both sides will now kill for"; Earth moving to militarise/ration/prioritise it after the finding.
- ~2316+ (The Cairn, planned) The reach beyond the throat goes wound-riddled ("the road the Dawnward opens through the reach wounds the reach's sky across the following years"); the Cairn becomes the last stable junction before the wound complex.