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Every story, chapter, dispatch, and dossier — in order of release.
The Fringe
Background — Not the edge of the Integration but the part of it that does not work properly. An operator's stat line becomes an estimate here, and the estimate gets worse when the weather does.
Hyades Cluster
Background — Fourteen systems that answer to a family. Close enough together to be governed, far enough from anywhere else to make that governance uncontested.
Kappa 6
Background — Where fourteen systems are governed from. The distance between Kappa 6 and the systems it rules is the household's central administrative problem and its central advantage.
Vassal-7
Background — The one world in the record where anyone has written down what lives there. That the list is short says more about survey priorities than about the ecology.
Point Elroy
Point Elroy / Island Hotel-Echo-Zero-Three Background — A drilling site on a contested moon, named twice — once by the survey and once by whoever had to call it something on the radio.
Varex
Background — A tidally locked moon with three claimants and no court. Mineral rights here are settled by whoever can keep the drills turning, which is a design decision as much as a legal one.
Holliworld
Background — Deep enough into the fringe that a mercenary company can maintain a home base without anyone asking what it does between contracts.
Orith Vale
Background — A habitable world under a household in managed decline. The gravity is slightly heavy and so is everything else about doing business here.
Thaluvor
Background — The last system where the Fringe is still an idea rather than a condition. Past Thaluvor, coverage stops being a rating and starts being a daily fact.
The Archives
Background — Vethari record-keeping that began fourteen centuries before the Integration reached anyone. Human assessment of the site is not available, and the framing of this entry should not pretend otherwise.
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.