The Fray · Gate system
“The Drift provides.”
A scrappy shipbuilding, repair, and salvage hub, built up around a Precursor gate that works, but not quite right — it's real and functional, just imprecise, occasionally producing “drift” arrivals that show up off-target, early, late, or all three. The local culture has absorbed this into a fatalistic, adaptable shrug.
Exports ship repair, refits, and salvage parts; imports raw ore (mostly from Vosk), food, and replacement components. Nothing here was ever new, and everyone's fine with that.
Middling, self-made, unglamorous.
Nobody has ever explained why this gate, specifically, drifts when none of the others do. Salvage Downs occasionally turns up wreckage that, as far as anyone can determine, never passed through a gate connected to anywhere near here.
System chart
Diagram is schematic — orbits are not to scale. See distance and measurement.
Places
A sprawling shipyard-station complex built around the unstable gate. If it can be welded, patched, or talked into working one more time, someone at Driftworks will do it for a fair price.
A small rocky moon serving as scrapyard and ship graveyard. Salvage rights disputes here are a local sport. Wreckage turns up that never passed through any gate connected to anywhere near here.