Spent Light · Vessel
Dockside service and recovery craft of the Meridian programme, carried by ISV Endurance — not a planetfall craft; it works the hull and the near-ship volume, and works the salvage that goes onto her patchwork hull as she degrades. Four crew; 31 metres.
Designation
YT-4A yard-tender (Meridian-program support craft)
Fleet
endurance craft
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.
Deep explorer. Self-sufficient, long-endurance, heavy stores. Built for absence, not for battle.
⚠ 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
Dockside service, towing, salvage, external maintenance and recovery. The craft that strips wrecks and welds their bones onto the Endurance's patchwork hull as she degrades in the far pocket. A standard planning fit carries one YT-4A.
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 Only sections that are settled canon are shown — drafting notes and anything belonging to an unpublished book are held back.
