The Atlas

The only part of the map with real coordinates. Earth and its sites; the Moon; the charted junctions of the home network, plotted at their sky positions; and the home systems of the three species Earth actually met — placed by the distances the bible fixes, in the directions it names.

• Earth and Sol — Svalbard, Bergen, Cape Verde, Kyoto, Bristol; Daedalus on the lunar far side. published
• The home network — The charted junctions of the home network, from Proxima's bearing out past fifty light-years, colour-coded by wound coupling. published
• Tarva — Home star of the Tarvan, about twelve light-years out — the first people met; two species that caught the same signal twelve light-years apart. published
• The Iret system — About twelve light-years out, in the Tau Ceti vicinity. Their grammar grew from the same 2047 signal on a different clock. published
• The Vekhol system — About twenty-three light-years out — Proxima's vicinity but not Proxima. A thick, low-oxygen world with rich industrial chemistry; a slow people. published
• A ten-thousand-year civilisation, gone — Star systems within about sixty light-years; an interstellar span of ten thousand years, ended. Their scars are eighty thousand years old. published

Where the Long Watch goes. The catastrophic-coupling junctions — 44-F, with its ruins and the thing that woke in them; 17-D, the Cascade — and the fixed zone the Hostile hold at about two hundred light-years. Still on the sky, still at named distances.

• Junction 44-F — Forty light-years, catastrophic coupling. A dead civilisation's ruins, and a post-biological consciousness eighty thousand years dormant in the seam substrate. published
• The Hostile zone — A fixed deep-field junction zone about two hundred light-years out. They are territorial about it. Origin unknown. published
• The Entity — Approaching on a trajectory that points to interstellar space, roughly sixty years out along it. published

The Rivas corridor's sling-and-catch logistics; the Lantern, a cathedral-scale anchor holding a great fold open; the Causeway, the chokepoint the last book is fought over; and the Span — the door that the far pocket and the Sable Reach open onto from their own sides.

• The Rivas corridor — The Sundgren Combine's sling and catcher chain. published
• The Span and the Lantern — The anchor, the chokepoint, the door. published

A disconnected network with no relay home: heat death in progress, junctions guttering, stars dimming toward a dead heart. What unchecked extraction produces. The Endurance is flung here by sabotage and comes back the oldest way there is. It cannot be placed on the sky and the books do not try.

• The Green World — the Drowned — Ancient-Earth humans, adapted. published
• The Dead Heart — The floor of the pocket. published

About two hundred light-years from Geneva: the newly reachable cluster the Dawnward is sent to chart, and the station that grows at its one door. The Sable Throat is the chokepoint; the Cairn sits on its stable-space lip and becomes, over five books, an interspecies city and the last authenticated waymark before the wound complex.

• The Cairn — Thirteen rings, six arms. The hub of everything beyond. published
• Ostry — The Ferren world under a dying sun — its failing star is the anomaly at the heart of Wide Sky. published
• The Weir and Corran — The corridor cut around the throat, and the inhabited sky downstream that the road loads and, in time, puts out. published

The far reach past the certified boundaries: mark stations, watering runs, roads that are marked rather than held, and a converted survey hull working all of it. The same roads carry a colony survey out to Fifteen, where the four Sennet junctions end — and where the sky goes out.

• The far reach — Hember, Lantry, Withen's Shoal, Ulmot — and the four grounds of the last cache: Almon, Wrent, Ledden, Farrant. published
• Fifteen — the Hart colony — A 0.94 g world under a quiet K-type star at the end of the Sennets. Terminal black is measured against this settlement. published