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Kukra City

Shepherd station / White Crystal factory ship—and the Arm’s critical super-bridge gate to DeFi Passage.

What this place is

Shepherd station / White Crystal factory ship—and the Arm’s critical super-bridge gate to DeFi Passage.

Fiction place dossier for the free hard SF series Star Map Draftsman by Mango Taoist — not a real astronomy entry.

Spoiler label: Book II · people-first, spoiler-light facts from the atlas.

Kukra City appears as a mobile factory refining/distributing White Crystal.
Battle for Kukra City: federations besiege the station as the last migration lifeline.
Shepherd states Kukra’s super Star Bridge is their sole gift to the Orion Arm and ends at DeFi Passage.
Jonathan stirs war rumors that Kukra will abandon everyone; Dawn argues Kukra must not fall to one man.
UNCERTAIN: whether Kukra is primarily a city, ship, or station—text uses all frames.