The Reach · Vessel
Sabik
Coalition-supply convoy freighter (lead hull of a small convoy) operating the coreward routes during the Book 5 Doorstep engagement.
Designation
convoy-freighter
T4 The Frontier Golden Age · 2240–2246 Merchant 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 coupling in The Quiet Mathematics aimed at a target's harmonic relationship — and is new, rare and barely understood at the close.
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 T4 — derived from the capability ladder for its era; role inferred from class and description.
The record
Class and design
Coalition-supply convoy freighter (lead hull of a small convoy) operating the coreward routes during the Book 5 Doorstep engagement.
Role
The first named on-page demonstration of the Book 5 network-war keystone: a vessel destroyed flying a route every node certified as correct. Carried Master Driscoll. Lost mid-Act I. Its loss is the coalition's first concrete proof that "authenticated" no longer means "true."
Mission log
• Book 5, Doorstep engagement (chapter 3): running a coreward supply route; every node along the track signs nominal/position-good; the forcing call bends the actual position while the network reports the certified one; convoy lost. LOST.
Authority
Coalition supply tasking, coreward routes (Book 5).
Related hulls
• ISV Lodestar — observes the loss off the relay (the clean-data proof Cross and Delgado build on, chapter 2–chapter 3.
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 Only sections that are settled canon are shown — drafting notes and anything belonging to an unpublished book are held back.