Universe Reference
Gazetteer
48 places across the published novels — junctions, systems, shipyards, stations, colonies, wound zones and the handful of rooms on Earth where most of it was decided. Where a place has been charted, it links to its chart. Where the novels have not yet said where something is, this page says that instead of guessing: 9 of 48 have an established position, and the rest are real places the story simply has not pinned down.
Junctions
15The navigable nodes of the Seam network — the fixed points a ship folds between.
Junction 1
The Driftjunction · ACTIVE
Junction 14-A
The Drift · The Outer Run · Long Burnjunction · ACTIVE
Junction 14-B
The Outer Runjunction · ACTIVE
Junction 18-F
The Outer Run · The Driftjunction · ACTIVE
Junction 19
The Outer Run · The Driftjunction · ACTIVE
Junction 22-C
The Driftjunction · ACTIVE
Junction 22-D
The Outer Runjunction · ACTIVE
Junction 44-F
The Drift · Deep Grammar · The Long Watchjunction · ACTIVE
Junction 8-C
The Outer Runjunction · ACTIVE
Junction 8-E
The Outer Runjunction · ACTIVE
Q-3
The Outer Runjunction · ACTIVE
Rivas Corridor
The Reachjunction · est. early expansion era
the Causeway
The Reachjunction
the Lantern (the Vantor Junction Anchor)
The Reachjunction · est. golden-age expansion era
the Sable throat
Wide Sky · The Cairnjunction
The chokepoint — "the single door out of the Sable Reach."
Systems & Regions
10Star systems and whole regions of space, most of them reached by somebody who was not sure what was there.
Architects' System
The Drift · The Long Watch · Deep Grammaralien-system
CW3 / Eirún
The Drift · The Correctionalien-system
Green World (the Drowned)
Spent Lightplanet (far pocket — unnamed)
Unnamed far-pocket world (S10 B1).
Nhál Stranding Locus (Junction 14-A interior)
Long Burn · The Driftalien-system
⚠ SUPERSEDED on origin mechanism (added 23 Jul 2026).
Ostry
Wide Skyplanet (Ferren colony world; reddening / failing sun) · est. ~2192 (Ferren landfall — the *Kindred*)
The Ferren world — a heavy world under a dying sun, in the Sable Reach.
SYS-12 (Dead-Star System)
Spent Lightstar system
Far-pocket survey site (S10).
SYS12-PLAT-CHOKEPOINT-01
Spent Lightplatform (ancient installation)
Inactive ancient installation in [[sys-12|SYS-12]] (far pocket, S10).
Tarvan Home-System
The Drift · The Outer Run · Long Burnalien-system
the Hearth
Wide Sky · The Cairnstar system (dead / starless)
The dead, starless system where the Nhál debt was paid.
the Sable Reach
Wide Sky · The Cairnregion (deep cluster / newly-reachable reach)
The newly-reachable deep cluster the NV *Dawnward* is sent to chart — the setting of Wide Sky.
Stations, Yards & Colonies
12Built places: shipyards, orbital habitats, corridor stations and the colonies that depend on them.
Aldermoor
The Reachlocation
Brightfall
The Reachport
Highreach
Wide Skyorbital
Orbital station over Earth — the hub of the abundance era.
ISNI Academy (Svalfjell Ridge)
The Driftresearch-station · est. 2135
Lanehead
The Reachorbital · est. golden-age expansion era
Mercer Yards
Wide Skyport (Mars spaceport / shipyard)
The great Mars spaceport and shipyard, where the survey ships are built.
Saltire
The Reachorbital · est. golden-age expansion era
Sennen
The Reachorbital · est. golden-age expansion era (half-terraformed)
Shore Repository
The Archival · The Silence · The Fracturedarchive
Spindrift
The Reachorbital
the Far Concord
The Reachorbital
Tornel Station
The Reachorbital · est. golden-age expansion era
Frontier Stations
1Standing structures at the edge of the charted road.
The Cairn (Cairn Relay)
Wide Sky · The Cairnstation · est. 2312
Canonical name: *the Cairn* (crew shorthand). B1 technical designation: *Cairn Relay*. The name survives after B3 even though it is no longer merely a relay. Provenance: a surveyor's word for the last authenticated waymark at the edge of the charted road — the final marker before the dark. Identity decision-locked 23 Jul 2026 (author-approved), pre-prose — recorded under Canon-lock block as…
Earth
9Where it started, and where the institutions still argue about it.
Aureline
The Reachcity
Bergen
The Silence · The Drift · The Outer Run · Long Burncity · est. pre-canonical
Bergen Repair Yards (BRBY)
The Drift · The Outer Runport · est. pre-2125
Bristol
The Fractured · The Silencecity · est. pre-canonical
Oslo
The Silence · The Driftcity · est. pre-canonical
Reykjavik
The Silence · The Drift · The Fracturedcity · est. pre-canonical
Svalbard Deep-Field Array
The Silence · The Archival · The Drift · The Outer Run · The Fracturedresearch-station · est. pre-2047
Svalbard Shipyard
The Driftport · est. pre-2127
Tromsø
The Silence · The Drift · The Outer Runcity · est. pre-canonical
Wound Zones
1Places where the cost of crossing has become locally, physically visible.
2157 Ceres Station (E7B1 destination)
The Fractured · The Silencewound-zone
Compiled from the canon entity records. A place appears here as soon as it is named in a published novel; its position appears only once the novels establish one.