The Outer Registry
Nine surviving settlements and a legal fiction.
World
What remains of the Earth
Nine settlements, one ledger, and the long silence between them.
The world
Locations
Kalanthe Station
Where the long room is.
The world
Politics
The Drift Compacts
Treaties written by people who will never meet.
The Road-Fleets
Four generations without a wall.
The world
Technology
Cold-Cycle Settlements
Life measured in maintenance.
The Ballistics of Distance
Violence at the speed of arithmetic.
The world
History
The Founding Silence
Eleven hours nobody agrees on.
The world
Species
Registry Scholiasts
Human, altered, and disputed.
The world
Glossary
Compact
n. A treaty binding parties who cannot speak in real time.
Ledger Death
n. Administrative erasure.
The world
Maps
Charts of the Registry
Nine settlements, four road-fleets, one disputed corridor.
Timeline
A chronology
AR 0 · Before
The Registry is chartered
A customs instrument becomes the last government by accident, in the second decade after the Fall.
AR 214 · Book One
The Long Room
One shot in Kalanthe, in the long room under the unfinished dome. The events of The Shooter.
AR 215 · After
The Founding Silence
Eleven undocumented hours become three centuries of argument.
AR 268 · Forthcoming
Book Two
The road-fleets bring their case to a court that no longer has jurisdiction over anything.
AR 511 · Forthcoming
Book Three
The Cycle closes where it opened, in a room built for an instrument that never arrived.