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Tsl 5

Transfer Station Lagrange-5 · Transfer station at Lagrange-5 · Earth transfer station

The station that once marked Transport Union authority becomes the stage where Laconia scripts Sol's transfer of control and displays its defeated leaders.

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TSL-5 opened as Earth's enormous interface with interstellar trade and as the formal boundary where planetary power yielded to the Transport Union. Three months after Leuctra, the Heart of the Tempest and occupied People's Home arrive for a new transfer of authority.

Its vaulted conference room again hosts Sol's leading officials, but now waiters serve champagne beneath views of Earth, Luna, the void city, and Laconia's flagship. Anton Trejo mingles as victor while Drummer, the secretary-general, and other old leaders prepare scripted statements. The same elegant room that celebrated Earth's commercial recovery now makes the end of the union appear orderly, voluntary, and socially continuous.

Appearance

A gigantic station at Earth's Lagrange-5 point, its vaulted reception hall filled with champagne, elite officials, press seating, and wall screens showing Earth, Luna, People's Home, and the Tempest.

Role

TSL-5 is the ceremonial theater where one transfer of jurisdiction is overwritten by the public surrender of the entire old interstellar order.

Relationships

Camina Drummer — Camina Drummer is brought from house arrest to speak Laconian-approved lines from its press podium.
Anton Trejo — Anton Trejo uses the station to present conquest as a polite administrative handoff.
Transport Union — The Transport Union once asserted its authority here and now publicly describes itself as a temporary structure yielding to Laconia.
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Chapter 2
  • Earth's enormous new handoff station reopens the recovering planet to interstellar trade under Transport Union rules.
Chapter 52
  • The station that once marked Transport Union authority becomes the stage where Laconia scripts Sol's transfer of control and displays its defeated leaders.
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