The Reach · Vessel
Lena Marchetti's command — a fast, armed Frontier-bloc cutter ("all aerials"), defiantly compact-painted; colony-born Marchetti, Combine-aligned but the Frontier bloc's face, not a corporate warship. NOT a grain-hauler, NOT the heavy hull, NOT a Combine warship.
Designation
patchwork-hull
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.
Converted. Whatever her donor hull had, plus whatever the conversion managed before the schedule ran out.
⚠ 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
Capt. Lena Marchetti's command — a fast, armed Frontier-bloc cutter ("all aerials"), defiantly compact-painted; colony-born Marchetti, Combine-aligned but the Frontier bloc's face, not a corporate warship. NOT a grain-hauler, NOT the heavy hull, NOT a Combine warship.
Command vessel of Capt. Lena Marchetti, the Frontier bloc's fair-rival face who asserts jurisdiction over the Rivas Corridor (Book 1) and recurs toward the Book 5 coalition (Book 3 ally-seed → Book 4 ordered to fire on people she respects → Book 5 first to break into the coalition). A fast, armed, defiantly compact-painted Frontier cutter — colony-born, Combine-aligned, but emphatically not a corporate warship or freighter.
Frontier bloc; Marchetti is the bloc's face on the Book 3 expedition (colony-born, Combine-aligned, not a uniformed corporate officer).
• ISV Lodestar — initially jurisdictional adversary; the two ships act as paired moving catchers in the Book 1 climactic distributed catch (Book 1 C).
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 Only sections that are settled canon are shown — drafting notes and anything belonging to an unpublished book are held back.
