Station
The Cairn (Cairn Relay)
Sits on the stable-space lip of the Span mouth, at the Sable throat — "the single door out of the Sable Reach": outside the reach geographically, controlling the single authenticated door into and out of it. The one fixed chokepoint every hull must pass. The Cairn does not move; the meaning of what lies beyond it changes — in Who the Door Admits the edge of an unproven road, by The Cairn the…
Type
station
Within
sable-reach
Founded
2312
Position
Canon has not established a position
Description
Sits on the stable-space lip of the Span mouth, at the Sable throat — "the single door out of the Sable Reach": outside the reach geographically, controlling the single authenticated door into and out of it. The one fixed chokepoint every hull must pass. The Cairn does not move; the meaning of what lies beyond it changes — in Who the Door Admits the edge of an unproven road, by The Cairn the boundary before damaged space. Who the Door Admits/What First Call Buys/Who Gets to Answer establish it as the reach's gateway. The road the Dawnward opens through the reach (Wide Sky) wounds the reach's sky across the following years, so that by The Cairn the reach beyond the throat has gone…
Classification
Frontier junction station at the Sable throat — the last stable junction before a wound
Canon has not fixed this place in space, so the archive does not invent a coordinate for it. It appears in the gazetteer as unplaced rather than on the star map as a guess.