Locations

Register of the worlds, stations, and sites of the chronicle, organised as a tree from star to settlement. The parent field in each entry’s frontmatter records its place in the hierarchy; individual bodies retain their own entries.

Sol System

• Sol — the star at the centre of the settled sphere; root of the Sol-system tree
  • Earth — humanity’s home world; origin of the L-chirality standard
    • Luna — Earth’s moon, first permanent extraterrestrial human settlement
      • Guanghan Port — major lunar launch and landing facility
      • Kosmodrom Zarya — major lunar launch and landing facility
      • Kosmograd — Soviet lunar settlement, redesignated from a military base
      • Luna Research Domes — network of five research campuses
    • Earth-Luna Transit Station II (ELTS II) — one of at least six Earth-Luna transit stations
    • Earth-Luna Transit Station IV (ELTS IV) — one of at least six Earth-Luna transit stations
    • Severgrad Computational Complex (SCC) — the Soviet Union’s first purpose-built AI installation
    • Suhail Station — rotating torus at Earth-Moon L5, opened 2023
  • Venus — second planet of the Sol system
    • Aphrodite — Venusian cloud-layer habitat operated by Hesperus Initiative
  • Mars — first planet beyond Earth to host permanent settlement
    • Deimos — Mars’s smaller moon, site of the primary inner-system shipyard
    • Mars Settlements — thirteen permanent settlements, ~1,330,000 residents as of the 2165 census
    • Vysota Station — rotating orbital habitat in Mars orbit, operational since 2081
  • Jupiter — largest planet, site of the UN’s suspended He-3 extraction platform
    • Callisto — Jovian moon, site of the first confirmed D-chirality life
    • Europa — Jovian moon, site of the first confirmed extraterrestrial life
    • Ganymede — Jupiter’s largest moon, target of the Pathfinder Fleet’s first leg
    • Io — Jupiter’s innermost Galilean moon, ~2,000 residents
  • Saturn — sixth planet of the Sol system
    • Enceladus — Saturnian moon, target of the UN colonization programme
    • Titan — Saturn’s largest moon, target of the Pathfinder Fleet’s third leg
      • Boreas Station — permanent orbital station in Titan orbit
  • Neptune — eighth planet of the Sol system
    • SNOBA — Sun-Neptune L4 Optomechanical Baseline Array, deployed 2150–2153
    • Triton — Neptune’s largest moon, site of the 2133 biological discovery
  • Pluto — dwarf planet, site of the first confirmed non-human artifacts
    • Charon — Pluto’s largest moon, site of the Charon Anchor complex
    • Persephone Reach — Pluto’s first genuine surface settlement
  • Ceres — largest body in the asteroid belt, site of Tianshui
    • Tianshui — first human settlement on Ceres, established 2091
  • Asteroid Belt — the Belt extraction economy between Mars and Jupiter
    • Hygiea — fourth-largest body in the belt, site of the 2125 UNSF raid
    • Pallas — large main-belt asteroid, construction site of The Ark
    • Vesta — large belt asteroid, headquarters of Argus Extraction Defense

Beyond the Sol System

• Alpha Centauri — nearest star system, designated destination of The Ark

Unassigned

• Kuiper Belt Site — non-human vessel in open trans-Neptunian space; no parent body identified