Universe
Overview
A single continuous science fiction universe. Eight centuries of history. One signal at the heart of it. Seven series, dozens of characters, and one event that touches all of them.
2026–2803
Timeline
The full cosmological timeline from the first accidental traversal to the Origination event.
Physics
The Seam Network
What Seams are, how they behave, and what it costs to use them.
Registry
Characters
The protagonists and key figures across all seven series.
The Signal
The Six Fragments
Six people absorbed a piece of the signal in 2047. Their descendants carry it forward.
In-Universe Library
The Okafor Novels
Six novels published 2031–2042. Described by contemporaries as fiction. Described by scholars two centuries later as something else.
14 March 2047
At 03:17:44 UTC, Dr. Maren Solberg at the Svalbard Deep-Field Array receives 47 minutes and 33 seconds of pulse-sequence on the hydrogen line (1420 MHz). The signal does not originate from any direction in space. Spectral analysis is subsequently confirmed: the signal is a temporal transmission, source date approximately 2803 CE, transmitted by the Origination Archive of the Long Burn civilisation.
The immediate physical consequence: microscopic spacetime fractures — Seams — form at the Svalbard site and at five resonance points distributed across Earth. Six individuals absorb a fragment of the signal's information structure.
The long-term consequence: eight centuries of everything the franchise contains.
The Warning — Universe Context
The signal contains a warning. The Long Burn civilisation destroyed a star to send it back 756 years. When it arrived in 2047, no one knew what it meant. The warning reads:
"Do not replicate the grammar."
By 2047, no one knows what "grammar" means in this context. That is the tragedy. That is also the point.