The series map
One universe, told in separate series that each stand alone. This is where they sit in time and how they reach toward one another. You never need the map to read a book — it is here for the pleasure of seeing the whole shape at once.
The Drift builds the institutions — the navigation corps, the licensing bodies, the first crossings — that every later series inherits.
The Long Watch is the deep-frontier era a generation on: found ships, first contacts, and the rank of Captain itself, invented mid-voyage.
Spent Light and The Reach run in parallel in the 2240s and converge on a single moment — a lost ship coming home, and the alarm it raises.
The Silence is the origin: the signal that starts everything in 2047, the first fracture in spacetime — the point the whole map is drawn around.
Every series is, underneath, the same story told at a different scale: a civilisation crossing the Seam faster than it understands the cost, and the few who start to measure the bill. The novels never lecture it. The careful reader assembles it, book by book — which is the whole pleasure of a map like this one.