The Far Pocket
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.
Spoiler note: this chart shows the full canon of the Spent Light trilogy, including the ending.
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The Track
Who Holds What
Locations
The Home Network
Lit junctions, ledger, colonies — the living seam. The Span opens onto this. No shared coordinates with the far pocket; reachable only through the Span.
The Span
A single junction bridging the spent pocket to the home network — the one way out, known only to the Orun. Sealed behind the Endurance at the B3 climax by the Keeper's boundary cascade: detuned into chaos, non-navigable for months. Tann sees the rich far side as he is cut off, and will re-derive it. The door home was also the door in.
The Green World — the Drowned
An impossible temperate, forested world. Its people are the Drowned — ancient-Earth humans gone pre-industrial, surviving by forgetting. Named: Wenna, Edrin, Tegen. Hale finds diverged Earth species (oak, herring gull, dog). Eli Sarno musters out and stays here as contact officer, with one single-charge emergency beacon.
The Ascendant Lane — the Platform
A route-control junction-bridge. The crew breaches Orun positions to open it for the Ascendant (B1 Ch21; Pratt and Sengupta die) — the wrong-side choice. It becomes the Ascendant's invasion artery against the Orun.
Ascendant Station
Occupation and resupply hub. The Endurance trades salvage-tech licences for ammunition and feedstock (B2 Ch4). Both sides gather intelligence here.
The Heritage Vault
A cut-stone gallery on the Ascendant's oldest world, full of 'Founding' relics. Hale and Naral raid it (B2 Ch7) and recover the proof: a corroded colony-ship identity plate. The Ascendant are human-descended.
The Orun Gather
A guttered system in the deep cold — the last refuge of the Orun, the protected thing they guard. Non-humanoid, vast, grief-anchored; the translator fails. Their leader, the Keeper, is a pressure-signature the crew cannot voice. First contact via the rig (B2 Ch27); alliance struck (B3 Ch1–5). They hold the knowledge of how to seal a junction.
The Dead Heart
The Wound at its end-state: deep cold, guttering stars, the sky falling inward, junctions that will not hold. The terminal edge of the spent pocket. Observed, never explained.
This is a schematic, not an astronomical chart. The far pocket shares no coordinates with the home network — positions here are narrative, showing the Endurance's dead-reckoning track, not real-sky positions. See the other charts, or the celestial home-network map.