Lyr

Lyr builds small ships. Its low-gravity yards specialize in couriers, cutters, ferries, and other civilian craft whose value lies in being dependable, repairable, and available in number rather than imposing in scale. Pressurized halls surround the principal docks, with rotating residential drums and short shirtsleeve tubes connecting work that must otherwise be done in vacuum.

The shipwrights govern the yards, set internal labor codes, and answer for every certificate issued in Lyr’s name. A hull does not launch until a qualified yard surveyor has walked it end to end and called it sound. That certificate carries value in resale because it attaches the yard’s reputation to the ship long after delivery.

Velyr holds the external charter, guarantees contracts, and controls licenses for military conversion. Lyr therefore supplies civilian traffic across the Embrace without becoming an independent naval power. Its limitation is written into the same arrangement that makes its contracts portable: the yards can build and certify small craft, but they cannot lawfully turn them to military purpose without Velyrian consent.

The Twofold enters after the surveyors have done their work. Abiders are kept by the yards for the patient preservation of ships and for obligations that survive delivery; no practitioner replaces the technical signatory responsible for first launch.