Star Charts

The charted Seam-junction network of human space — every junction with a real-sky position, mapped against the actual star catalogue. This is the navigable, ledgered, living half of the universe. First signal 2047; first traversal 2071; the network most of the franchise takes place inside.

The same charted junctions as the celestial sky map, laid out flat by their real positions — right ascension across, declination up — so the diagram lines up with where each junction sits on the star map. The clean, legible companion to the rotating sky view: every junction, its Wound-coupling, and the Seam routes between them, at a glance.

A completely disconnected Seam network with no shared coordinates and no relay to home — which is why it cannot be drawn on the celestial map. It is a spent network: heat-death in progress, junctions guttering, the free-energy floor climbing, stars dimming toward a dead heart. The ISV Endurance is flung here by sabotage and finds her own way back the oldest way there is — by dead reckoning. This chart is schematic, not celestial: positions are narrative, not astronomical. Homeward is left; the deep cold is right.

The Sundgren Combine’s sling-and-catch transport region — the theatre of The Wrong Number. Mass-driver “slings” fling supply pods across the system on a flat ballistic line, and a chain of decelerator rings catches them at Tornel, gentle as freight. Crewed ships don’t run supplies here; they escort. Schematic, not celestial: positions are narrative.