Terminus Spire

The opening mercenary hub

Novel continuity through Chapter 02 · includes spoilers.

Terminus Spire reference artwork, with its dead moon and surrounding traffic.
Terminus Spire reference artwork, with its dead moon and surrounding traffic.

Canon at a glance

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Overview

Thousands of vessels crowd a vast station above a dead moon.

Full account

This is where Sera’s unpaid contract becomes the claim to Kestrel. The mercenary hub and the asteroid fortress are separate stations.

The Wayward Star arrives damaged after a civilian rescue. Twenty-eight crew survive; two crew members were lost before the opening sequence. Joel Hart and Anton Berg book passage here.

Terminus Spire: Dock Ring Seven.
Terminus Spire: Dock Ring Seven.
Terminus Spire: opening-scene equipment.
Terminus Spire: opening-scene equipment.
Terminus Spire and its docking approaches.
Terminus Spire and its docking approaches.

Connected entries

  • The Wayward Star

    Captain Sera Venn’s damaged independent frigate and the first ship to carry the Kestrel claim.

  • The novel timeline

    The novel’s first two chapters govern the current story chronology.