Due to the questionable orbit of Kitezh, its hostile environment and a lack of nearby moons, Soyuz had to sacrifice additional resources to enable the construction of an experimental SLE. With a prognosis of Earth CNS Ministries being that the CCM would suffer a net loss on refuelling costs and travel times between a surface-based SLE and Kitezh, the Industrial Unions and Science Institutes were contracted to establish a vacuum-based SLE in the far orbit of Kitezh. The project was completed in 2126 CE, with the first working version appearing as a widely spread metal fishing net with a mind-numbing quantity of space-grade equipment set up on board. It was dubbed 'Chukotka-2' due to the common understanding on Earth that Kitezh was a very distant, frontier wasteland of snow and ice.

After several revisions and experimental advancements, Chukotka-2 became a Push/Pull SLE with shifting polarity infrastructure, allowing it to both propel vessels to other systems as well as course correct near-miss trajectories in its sphere of influence (due to Chukotka-2 being just out of reach of a full link with Orcus in Sol). Over time, Chukotka-2 was redesigned into a dense ring and bloated to the size of an average cruiser vessel, now under constant protection and supervision of a dedicated customs fleet.