Meridian Deep-space transit network
Pressurized domes on a red world braced against an oncoming sandstorm

Waypoint 01 — Arrival

Basecamp

Pressurized domes hold against the season's first sandstorm. Every crew cycles through here before the long jump inward.

A glowing resonance gate standing between two monolithic towers under a green sky

Waypoint 02 — The jump

Threshold

Step into the resonance gate and cross forty light-years in the space of a single heartbeat.

A lone desert research station beneath an enormous cratered planet

Waypoint 03 — Orbit watch

Waystation

A quiet outpost tracking the giant overhead, logging every drift in its rings and every ship that passes.

Dark industrial towers silhouetted against a vast dying red sun

Waypoint 04 — The works

Foundry

Where the network gets built — hull plate poured and gates cast under a slow, dying red sun.