The Far Roads · Vessel
MV Kedge
Civilian Motor Vessel, commercial charter – the hull that carries no embarked authority.
Designation
motor-vessel
T5 The Guttering Age · 2312–2349 Merchant derived
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.
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 T5 — derived from the capability ladder for its era; role inferred from class and description.
The record
Class and design
MV, commercial charter. Carries NO embarked authority — hers came off her in 2338. On a traffic board she is indistinguishable from Tallow, Fettle and Capstan.
Service history
• Book 1 · 2334→2335 — Rusnak is a competitor and a colleague and nothing has broken yet. • Book 2 · ~2336–2337 · Mireth – Already there, on charter, carrying the outside carriers' assay party and their gear for the works-ground let. He got the job precisely because Mireth's road was unauthenticated, and Kedge goes where nothing is. Wells de-authenticates the approach with his people on the far side; he takes Kedge across anyway; he gets most of them; he does not lose the hull; he loses some. His authority comes off him afterwards — 2338 — in an office, over paper, in ten minutes, neither party raising their voice. neither is wrong and neither will ever say so. • Book 3 / Cairn Book 5 · 2342 — she does the thing the cairn proscribed itself from doing with paper. - Asked at by Kade, through her network — the thing the government cannot do. He took Kade's ask before the chamber sat. - Clears the docks, during movement control. the berth is morrow'S — a lawful Concession berth booking and a card issued at the desk in the ordinary way. NO FORGED DOCUMENT (G-2). Nobody in the scene notes that it is the same move Morrow made in 2334, and Kade pays her ledger price again.
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.