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Spent Light · Vessel

Ilvane

Named hull

Created Dead Reckoning, chapter 16.

Designation

Named hull

Classification

the Ascendant

Fleet

ascendant fleet

Series

SeriesSpent Light

Books in the series

BookDead Reckoning BookThe Wrong Side BookOpening the Span

Rest of the registry

VesselISV Endurance VesselISV Resolute VesselISV Resolute II VesselNV Erika Magnusdóttir VesselNV Persistent Error VesselNV Karl Vidar Pedersen VesselNV Dawnward VesselKindred VesselISV Lodestar VesselMV Tallow VesselISV Rampart VesselNV Longsight

Elsewhere in the archive

Drawn from what this entry actually names — not a curated list, so it grows as the record does.

In the glossary

Dead reckoningThe Ascendant
T4 The Frontier Golden Age · 2240–2246 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.

⚠ 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.