Beacon Alpha Three

Beacon Alpha Three marks the V-Ship's original course destination, relayed by Penn in his initial navigation update from the flight deck. Hermack abandons it upon Alpha Four's emergency, boosting engines toward the crisis. As an argonite orbital outpost in the Pliny system, it hums with fixed beam transmitters under stellar vacuum, serving as a routine patrol waypoint amid interstellar threats—secure yet isolated, bypassed in the pirate raids' shadow.