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Every story, chapter, dispatch, and dossier — in order of release.
Veth-9
Background — A spire that fell and left a structure holding up nothing at all. Surveyors record the site and move on.
The Lattice of Echoes
Background — Something the size of a moon, built as a fractal, in a system with nothing else in it. It is not an installation. What it is instead has not been established.
Delos Station
Background — A station built over a question. The investigation closed without answering it, which is the most common outcome in Architect research and the least satisfying.
Saluvane
Background — Farms, two moons, a militia, and a general store. Also a dormant Architect installation 2,840 metres down. The colony was chartered for the first list and is going to be defined by the second.
Saluvane Bore Site
Background — An agrarian colony was chartered, settled, and farmed for years above a dormant Architect installation. The bore found it. Dormant is not dead.
Cantos IV
Background — The place where the Integration switched on, with an archaeology team standing inside it. Every timeline in human space dates from what happened here.
Alpha Centauri
Background — Humanity's first neighbor and the place it found the ruins that made everything past this system reachable. What was recovered here worked. Nothing here has worked since.
Sol System
Notes — Humanity's origin system. Pre-Integration history documented from 2026 CE forward. Background — The system every distance in human space is measured from, and the one fewest frontier operators have seen.
Holdfast Station
Background Holdfast was never meant to be anywhere. It was built four decades before the Integration as a fuel stop on a route that mattered to somebody, by a crew who named it after the job rather than the place, and it has spent every year since being added to by people who nev…
The Aldric Family
Background — Not a government and not a company. A family that bought a station's debts and has spent four decades enforcing exactly one rule, on the theory that any second rule would cost half the economy.
Purist Movements
Background — Not one movement but eight arguments, sharing only the conviction that the Integration is something to be refused rather than optimized. They disagree with each other more sharply than they disagree with anyone else.
The Unintegrated
Background — Two behaviors under one name, and no established account of how they relate. What is documented is what has been survived. Assessment on the remainder is not available.
Colonial Militia
Background — Colonists with weapons and a duty roster. On Saluvane that is the entire defense establishment.
University of Saluvane
Background — A university on an agrarian frontier colony. Its existence says more about what the colony intends to become than about what it currently is.
Tyveren Bank
Background — Always open, which on Orith Vale is a statement about who needs banking and at what hour. Anything in physical chips waits for someone with authority.
Maravel-Tyveren Shipping
Background — Where a Fringe operator goes when the cargo does not cover the fuel. Lending and shipping under one roof is not a convenience.
The Squeeze
Background — Not an organization. A pattern that independent operators notice only in aggregate, and usually only after their own paper has already changed hands.
Veldris Group
Background — A resource conglomerate that does its work in an office tower rather than on a moon. Strategic Analysis on the twenty-second floor decides which moons the work happens on.