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Sable Kite Ray

Milvus tenebris

Abyssal1.6 m wingspan · Fleeing · gliding

Field record

The ray is all long black wings and a trailing filament, cruising just beneath the survey line until a lamp finds it. Then it banks on a single wingtip with no visible effort and glides out of the beam, too fast and too quiet to follow by eye. The survey crew calls it a kite because it seems tethered to a current nobody else can feel.

Marginal note: “turns on one wingtip and vanishes below the beam”

Habitat

ZoneThe Lower Dark

Depth range2,100–2,800 m

DiscoveryNo special condition — found simply by piloting close enough to identify it.

Catching it

A Abyssal-tier catch needs at least a Heavy-Gauge Net— anything under that rating can never hold it, whatever the throw. Bought at the Quartermaster’s counter for 850 crystals. A held net inks this entry for good and pays its ledger bonus on the spot.

Ledger bonus on capture+14 Accel

Full capture mechanics — sighting vs. capture, the aim ring, why a net below a creature’s tier always bursts — in The Ledger.