The corridor's centre of gravity, where the line splits into two kinds of power: a fortress no civilian may approach, and the capital the corridor actually runs from.
Sector VI is the deep capital of the Ledger: the densest band on the far side of the corridor's long, thin middle. Two registry regions share it. One is the Persei Seat: a single blue-white fortress star, ringed by encryption-locked stand-off fields, where half the corridor's Senate and an L3 validator decide what the Ledger is permitted to call true. The other is the Cichora Dominion, the living half: a young star cluster strung with foundries and biotech estates, a foreground capital world, and a debris field that is at once the richest mine and the deadliest hazard in the sector.
The two powers sit deliberately apart. You can see the fortress; you cannot reach it. You can reach the capital; it never stops trading. Everything below is pulled directly from the corridor atlas: every registered system, every etrution node, every lane.
A separate far-field B-star, well apart from the cluster it appears to belong to. The Seat is not a settlement and never was; it is attestation infrastructure: an L3 validator and half the corridor's Senate, sealed behind encryption-locked stand-off fields that only a sovereign MIND may pass. Every gram of its presence was shipped in once, under charter, and nothing has bootstrapped there since. The geology enforces the lockout: there is nothing in-system to build from.
MIND / Research / Restricted. The L3 validator and the seat of the Persei Senate (sectors V–VIII). Fold field at 200 AU, emergency stand-off at 270 AU; tiered installations at 10–30 AU. No civilian terminals, ever.
A catalogued common-proper-motion companion whose possible primordial belt was a gamble the early engineers took. Bound status unverified; registered as a speculative reserve with no built presence.
The political span: the α Persei cluster proper, plus the Cichora foreground that hangs in front of it along the same sight-line. This is where people actually live and work: a young, radiation-rich cluster whose worlds survive by storm-shelter discipline rather than thick hulls, anchored on a quiet old foreground dwarf that became the capital because the centre always earns the name.
The practical capital of the deep corridor and the principal civilian gateway for the whole Dominion. Registry-and-chain name Cichora Beta; spoken name Cichora Prime. The ET-014 field is a full multi-node terminal (A/F/E/R/S) at 30–55 AU.
The capital's own working trio: Gamma (extraction / strategic resource), Delta (extraction + processing), Epsilon (logistics, relay and strategic storage). The hands that keep Rezo Prime fed.
The brightest star in the cluster sky, on every Dominion seal — and deliberately empty. Iconography is free; infrastructure is not. No nodes, no installations, no civilians by definition. A disputed candidate planet survives only as a dormant paper claim.
Heavy manufacturing and industrial support: the cluster's primary fabrication anchor.
Specialised industry and materials conversion, harvesting the decretion disk of a fast-spinning Be star: feedstock without a gravity well.
Specialised biotech industry and civic population support. Flagged for review: its value thesis is thin until the Dominion economy pass.
Specialised industry and materials conversion, working the shell-star's ejected matter: the cluster's second decretion harvest.
The most extreme debris disk known, and the region's richest mining claim. The belt is still colliding; the dust is the hazard, never the ore. You mine a battlefield, not a quarry. Access is provisional via ET-033R.
~517 stars within the tidal radius (~2,041 within three tidal radii), the mixed population and labour base the named anchors draw on.
| Node | System | Role | Offset | Hazard | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ET-013 / 013R | The Persei Seat | Restricted field / research access | 200 AU | Red | Restricted |
| ET-013E | The Persei Seat | Emergency stand-off | 270 AU | Red | Conditional |
| ET-014A | Cichora Beta | Civilian mainline (locked) | 30 AU | Green | Open |
| ET-014F | Cichora Beta | Freight mainline | 42 AU | Green | Open |
| ET-014R | Cichora Beta | Restricted / controlled | 38 AU | Green | Restricted |
| ET-014E / 014S | Cichora Beta | Emergency fallback / staging | 50–55 AU | Green | Conditional / Open |
| ET-014C | Cichora cluster + foreground | Cluster transfer | 60 AU | Amber | Open |
| ET-033R | V488 Persei | Restricted claim access | 45 AU | Red | Provisional |
| Lane | Type | Into | Chord | Class | Beacon spacing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR-006 | Trunk | ET-014A (Cichora Beta) | 300.9 LY | Core | 0.5 LY |
| BR-007 | Trunk | ET-021A (Sector VII) | 306.5 LY | Standard | 1.0 LY |
| XL-01 | Express relay — Direct Lane | The Persei Seat (ε Per) — validator backbone; repeater-only, no nodes or gates · ~4.27 yr one-way | 640 LY | Standard | 1.0 LY |
| XL-02 | Express relay — Direct Lane | ET-014A (Cichora Beta) — capital lane; straightened twin of BR-006 · ~4.33 yr one-way | 650 LY | Standard | 1.0 LY |
| CT-02 | Cluster transfer | ET-014C | — | Informational | — |
The Seat's isolation is a deliberate, paid-for separation of powers. The Dominion chose the premium — and the recurring cost is exactly why nobody else has a second validator.
Next zoom: the deep-dive system map of Cichora Prime / Rezo Prime, rebuilt from a full body-and-infrastructure inventory.
Cichora Prime — the system → Back to The Corridor
Drawn from the Ledger Universe codex: Sector_VI_Persei_Hub.md and Geography/data/ (systems_register, etrution_nodes, beacon_routes, anchor_coordinates). Hand-built inline SVG on the Ledger skin. Schematic, not to scale.
