An Imperial recovery map centered on Port Ansel, the border-worlds freeport holding the region’s largest human minority. It includes the threshold at Adelon, the Crova Republic’s northern march, the claimant court’s two seats, the unclaimed space where Ang’Narr’s raiders range, and selected routes continuing beyond the depicted region.
Only systems and hyperlanes important to this operational record are displayed. See Astronomy and Map Scope for stellar classifications and the limits of the depicted route network.
The controlled Imperial threshold toward former Commonwealth space and the principal base for renewed recovery work.
Protected corridors converge on the anchorage above the terraformed world; the two outer beacons carry approach control for the Port Ansel lane and the lane toward the Crova Republic.
Adelon
Adelon’s sun is a yellow dwarf of even temperament, and that steadiness carried the terraforming case: a predictable star made a barren world worth centuries of work. Traffic concentrates on the world and its anchorage, with approach-control beacons named for the destinations their lanes serve.
Adelon
Adelon began as bare rock; Syliri terraforming gave it open water and a working biosphere. Its principal city is built for guests, with market streets descending between garden terraces and visitor terminals that render Aelith material in forms a foreign traveler can read. Golden towers hold the diplomatic residences, and the recovery effort musters in the same districts where foreign brokers keep their offices.
Recovery Anchorage
Survey tenders and relief convoys stage here between recovery runs, alongside expeditions returning from former Commonwealth space. Berthing is assigned by mission, and a returning crew’s cargo is often under claim review before the crew has cleared medical.
Crova Lane Beacon
An outer-system station that broadcasts navigation and hazard data, serves as an Aelith relay, and monitors and reports inbound traffic.
Port Ansel Beacon
An outer-system station that broadcasts navigation and hazard data, serves as an Aelith relay, and monitors and reports inbound traffic.
Nav-Ashlan Reception Annex
A maintained navigation buoy at the system boundary, aligned with the regular hyperlane toward Ashlan Reception Annex.
Nav-Ostrane
A maintained navigation buoy at the system boundary, aligned with the regular hyperlane toward Ostrane.
Nav-Port Ansel
A maintained navigation buoy at the system boundary, aligned with the regular hyperlane toward Port Ansel.
Ang’Narr
A self-sustaining haven whose raiding fleets exploit gaps between protected routes. Its operating reach is not a sovereign border.
Ang’Narr
Ang’Narr’s sun is a dim red dwarf, low on every commercial chart’s priority and absent from most. That obscurity is the haven’s oldest defense: the system offers raiders dark approaches and gives pursuers nothing worth patrolling between them.
Ang’Narr
The planetoid was hollowed during the Commonwealth civil war and crowned with a fortress of dark hyperalloys, spires and battlements standing over docks cut into the rock. Internal agriculture keeps the haven independent of any patron, and its politics run on reputation: kings hold the rock exactly as long as the crews accept the claim.
The Boneyard
Prize hulls come to the Boneyard when the haven is done with them, stripped to frames and left among the native rock. Salvage rights inside it follow Ang’Narr’s own law of standing, and knowing which famous wreck drifts where is an apprenticeship in itself.
Outer Anchorage
Raiding groups stage from the anchorage, outside the rock’s own defenses. A captain moors close to the castle in proportion to standing, and the moorings reshuffle after every prize comes home.
Ashlan Reception Annex
The former Patrol Depot R-4 now receives refugee traffic from the Ashlan successor region. Its orbital facilities provide initial accommodation, medical assessment, and onward transport. Annex II supports voluntary long-term settlement in a mild terrestrial environment, while the old depot structures remain in service as the Reception Anchorage.
Ashlan Reception Annex Primary
The Annex primary is a calm orange dwarf with two terrestrial planets inside its temperate band. Depot planners valued the star’s long, even output; the reception mission inherited the same virtue, since Annex II can hold settlers for as many generations as they care to stay.
Annex I
Annex I is dry and thin-aired, with salt basins where shallow seas once stood. Automated relay and weather stations occupy its stable ground; settlement interest has always passed it over for its milder neighbor.
Annex II
Annex II carries open oceans and temperate coasts under a mild axial season. Resettlement villages stand well back from the reception facilities, so a family leaving the Anchorage can choose land that feels unclaimed.
Reception Anchorage
The old R-4 depot frames grew into reception halls and medical wards, with berthing for the transports that carry people onward or home. Intake records are kept in the arrival’s own language first and translated second.
Nav-Adelon
A maintained navigation buoy at the system boundary, aligned with the regular hyperlane toward Adelon.
Caerdon
Caerdon marks the Imperial approach to the Adelon corridor.
The relay station holds the corridor’s Aelith link and approach control, fueled from the system’s outer ice giant.
Caerdon
The primary is a long-lived orange dwarf with a calm flare record. Its small planetary retinue holds no settled world; the system earns its chart entry by position, marking the last Imperial relay before the corridor turns outward at Adelon.
Caerdon b
A cratered, airless world with wide temperature swings between its day and night faces. Its stable ground hosts passive instruments for corridor timekeeping, and survey interest ends there.
Corridor Relay Station
The station carries the corridor’s Aelith relay and approach control for traffic inbound to Adelon, with a standby berth for patrol and rescue tenders. Its crew rotates out from Adelon on long watches.
Caerdon c
Methane haze gives the planet a muted green cast. Imperial tenders skim its upper atmosphere on a standing schedule, keeping the relay fueled without a planetside installation.
Corbin
A settlement world of the Port Ansel freeport. Diaspora family registries here run back to emancipation.
Nav-Kavora
A maintained navigation buoy at the system boundary, aligned with the regular hyperlane toward Kavora.
Nav-Port Ansel
A maintained navigation buoy at the system boundary, aligned with the regular hyperlane toward Port Ansel.
Drossa
Ore processing and power-cell manufacture under Republic civilian standards. Half the border's working freighters carry a cell with a Drossa stamp on it.
Nav-Gantry
A maintained navigation buoy at the system boundary, aligned with the regular hyperlane toward Gantry.
Nav-Kessfield
A maintained navigation buoy at the system boundary, aligned with the regular hyperlane toward Kessfield.
Gantry
Frame assembly above a thin-atmosphere world. Hulls framed at Kessfield come here for fit-out.
Nav-Drossa
A maintained navigation buoy at the system boundary, aligned with the regular hyperlane toward Drossa.
UNKNOWN3
A maintained navigation buoy at the system boundary, aligned with a regular hyperlane whose destination lies beyond the mapped area.
Halyard
A spacer waystation on the northeast continuation. Convoys refuel here between protected stretches; the lane beyond it is the hunted one.
Nav-Illustra
A maintained navigation buoy at the system boundary, aligned with the regular hyperlane toward Illustra.
UNKNOWN4
A maintained navigation buoy at the system boundary, aligned with a regular hyperlane whose destination lies beyond the mapped area.
Illustra
A market with no sovereign above it. Licit and grey cargo cross the same docks, and a hyperspace comm unit can be had for the right price.
Nav-Halyard
A maintained navigation buoy at the system boundary, aligned with the regular hyperlane toward Halyard.
Nav-Port Ansel
A maintained navigation buoy at the system boundary, aligned with the regular hyperlane toward Port Ansel.
Kavora
The working seat of the court in exile: anchorage, drydock, and the handful of hulls the court still keeps.
Nav-Corbin
A maintained navigation buoy at the system boundary, aligned with the regular hyperlane toward Corbin.
Nav-Miradel
A maintained navigation buoy at the system boundary, aligned with the regular hyperlane toward Miradel.
Nav-Sutter
A maintained navigation buoy at the system boundary, aligned with the regular hyperlane toward Sutter.
Kessfield
Kess Heavy Aerospace's slipways and proving ranges anchor the Republic's northern march. The Arcus line came out of these yards, and the compatible-parts market for it never left.
Nav-Drossa
A maintained navigation buoy at the system boundary, aligned with the regular hyperlane toward Drossa.
Nav-Millway
A maintained navigation buoy at the system boundary, aligned with the regular hyperlane toward Millway.
Nav-Ostrane
A maintained navigation buoy at the system boundary, aligned with the regular hyperlane toward Ostrane.
Nav-Port Ansel
A maintained navigation buoy at the system boundary, aligned with the regular hyperlane toward Port Ansel.
UNKNOWN2
A maintained navigation buoy at the system boundary, aligned with a regular hyperlane whose destination lies beyond the mapped area.
Laxor Prime
A remote jungle world containing extensive Laxhit ruins, outside the current patrol schedule.
The outer giant’s mass keeps translation arrivals shallow; its ice moon is the one charted waypoint on the run in.
Laxor
Laxor is a bright yellow-white dwarf with a broad temperate band, and Laxor Prime sits deep inside it, wet and warm. The outer system carries enough mass to complicate translation approaches, which keeps casual traffic away and has left the ruins to the weather.
Laxor Minor
Laxor Minor runs hot, its surface renewed by eruption often enough that impact records rarely last a million years. Survey flights log its plumes from a respectful orbit.
Laxor Prime
Half the planet lies under closed-canopy jungle that masks emissions and swallows landings; every colonization attempt failed before taking root, for reasons no survey has settled. The Laxhit ruins stand where the canopy thins, extensive and largely unstudied, beyond the reach of the current patrol schedule.
Ruin Survey Marker
Placed by the first Imperial survey against the day a proper expedition is funded. It logs orbital imagery of the ruin fields and holds the claim of academic priority.
Laxor Major
Laxor Major carries most of the system’s planetary mass, and its well is the main reason deep-system translation arrivals shade conservative. Its ice moon holds the only survey benchmark in the system older than the Imperial charts.
Laxor Major I
The moon’s clean ice sheet makes it the brightest small object in the system and the natural waypoint on any inward run. A Commonwealth survey cairn stands at its south pole, the oldest artificial thing in the system after the ruins.
Millway
Agricultural processing and convoy administration for the Republic's northern lanes. The escort schedules are written here.
Nav-Kessfield
A maintained navigation buoy at the system boundary, aligned with the regular hyperlane toward Kessfield.
Miradel
The archive seat of House Zarandel's court in exile. The Ardavan Sanction is kept here, and the old road toward Sarvash leaves the charts a little east of the system.
Nav-Kavora
A maintained navigation buoy at the system boundary, aligned with the regular hyperlane toward Kavora.
UNKNOWN5
A maintained navigation buoy at the system boundary, aligned with a regular hyperlane whose destination lies beyond the mapped area.
Ostrane
The Republic's customs gate on the Adelon lane. Convoys form up here under escort before crossing into Imperial approach control.
Nav-Adelon
A maintained navigation buoy at the system boundary, aligned with the regular hyperlane toward Adelon.
Nav-Kessfield
A maintained navigation buoy at the system boundary, aligned with the regular hyperlane toward Kessfield.
Port Ansel
The seat and namesake of the border-worlds freeport around it. Port Ansel is home to the Hearthline Association, with ancestry archives, emergency berths, interpreters, and passenger traffic.
Traffic centers on Ansel and the Roads above it; Ferryman’s rings mark the outer approach.
Port Ansel
Port Ansel’s sun sits at the warm end of the orange dwarfs, bright enough for an open temperate band and calm enough that the port’s approach charts have needed no radiation appendix in living memory. Three planets attend it; the port takes its name from the second.
Fathom
Fathom’s basins hold the fused glass sands that face half the buildings on Ansel. Quarry crews work it in short rotations, and its night side offers the clearest astronomical seeing in the system.
Ansel
Ansel is the region’s meeting ground, a temperate world whose port city grew around its emergency berths. Humans are the largest minority among several peoples; the Hearthline Association keeps its family archives here, and ancestry researchers arrive on every passenger run. Street signage in several scripts is repainted each spring by civic subscription.
Ansel Roads
The Roads hold the passenger quays and the emergency berths the Hearthline Association keeps staffed, with moorings for the association’s two courier vessels between runs. Arrivals in distress take precedence over every scheduled service.
Pilot
The port’s approach control and traffic beacons operate from Pilot’s surface, clear of Ansel’s weather and radio clutter. Its far side hosts the successor region’s only working radio observatory.
Ferryman
Inbound crews sight Ferryman’s rings before anything else in the system, and port tradition credits a safe run to greeting it by name. Skim contracts on its hydrogen fund a fair share of the civic budget.
Nav-Adelon
A maintained navigation buoy at the system boundary, aligned with the regular hyperlane toward Adelon.
Nav-Corbin
A maintained navigation buoy at the system boundary, aligned with the regular hyperlane toward Corbin.
Nav-Illustra
A maintained navigation buoy at the system boundary, aligned with the regular hyperlane toward Illustra.
Nav-Kessfield
A maintained navigation buoy at the system boundary, aligned with the regular hyperlane toward Kessfield.
Nav-Sutter
A maintained navigation buoy at the system boundary, aligned with the regular hyperlane toward Sutter.
Nav-Windlass
A maintained navigation buoy at the system boundary, aligned with the regular hyperlane toward Windlass.
Sutter
The freeport's salvage port. Crews working the northern debris fields sell their hauls here.
Nav-Kavora
A maintained navigation buoy at the system boundary, aligned with the regular hyperlane toward Kavora.
Nav-Port Ansel
A maintained navigation buoy at the system boundary, aligned with the regular hyperlane toward Port Ansel.
Windlass
A spacer waystation on the northbound continuation out of Port Ansel. Convoys for the northern reaches take on stores here and clear the freeport's approaches by the next watch.
A dormant Commonwealth route beacon holds station off the anchorage, custody unresolved, and the Empire's Reception Annex keeps an unbuoyed survey lane toward the system.
Nav-Port Ansel
A maintained navigation buoy at the system boundary, aligned with the regular hyperlane toward Port Ansel.
UNKNOWN6
A maintained navigation buoy at the system boundary, aligned with a regular hyperlane whose destination lies beyond the mapped area.