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Wing I · Lore of the known galaxy

Codex

What the archivists know, and what they are willing to write down: the powers, their weapons, the things that live between the stars, and the waking of the fortress where every Lord Captain begins.

Technology3

Codex entry · Technology Hull Plating The plate on the buried ship was layered and thick, and it was built to be hit. What flies now is rebuilt from wrecks and from an incomplete memory of how that plate was made. The… Codex entry · Technology Shields A warship's shield is four faces: bow, stern, and both sides. Each face is its own barrier. A hit on the bow does not reset the stern. A face that has just been struck needs a… Codex entry · Technology Weapon Systems The guns of this galaxy come in a few families. Factions change the finish. They do not change the question, which is how the hit arrives. A cannon points and drills a shallow…

Bestiary6

Codex entry · Bestiary Elite Garrison Forces Classification: Fixed defense, heavy. Tactic: Several waves, each meaner than the last. An elite garrison is the strongest thing a sector leaves sitting still. The first wave is… Codex entry · Bestiary Fighter Craft Classification: Light strike craft. Role: Screen the ship, hunt anything small. Fighters are the little craft that come out of a bay. They are not capital ships with the scale… Codex entry · Bestiary Gunner Doctrine Classification: Ranged fighting. Tactic: Hold the distance the guns were built for. A gunner ship wants a gap and means to keep it. Railguns, beams, batteries that reward a steady… Codex entry · Bestiary Juggernaut Doctrine Classification: Heavy assault. Tactic: Close, and then overwhelm. A juggernaut is the most dangerous ordinary thing in a fight. Armor first, guns second, subtlety nowhere. It… Codex entry · Bestiary Scavenger Vessels Classification: Light fighting hull. Origin: Built from whatever four empires threw away. A scavenger ship is a pile of other people's plate. Combine steel bolted to a living… Codex entry · Bestiary Skirmisher Doctrine Classification: Mobile fighting. Tactic: Circle, fire, and do not sit. A skirmisher orbits at a middle distance and keeps moving. The armor was spent on engines. They would rather…

Factions4

Codex entry · Factions The Bio Collective The Bio Collective is not one species and not a coat of tissue on a machine. It is a swarm of living things that decided to be an empire together: plant-creatures, fungal lords… Bio Collective Codex entry · Factions The Industrial Combine The Industrial Combine is the largest of the four empires and the one a human eye recognizes first. Rivets, plate, foundries, and a ledger. Mines and yards across hundreds of… Industrial Combine Codex entry · Factions The Necro Dominion The Necro Dominion keeps the dead, and it keeps the accounts on the dead. Its ships are stolen wrecks, held together and lit by void energy, which does not behave the way honest… Necro Dominion Codex entry · Factions The Steam Confederacy The Steam Confederacy chose pressure. Where the others went to electronics or to living ships, the Confederacy went to boilers, valves, brass, and heat, and then spent a long time… Steam Confederacy

Sol History7

Codex entry · Sol History Facility Administrator Alicia Monroe Alicia Monroe runs the Moonbase out of the south-crater facility, a research post that was already old before the emergence. She got the Administrator's job the ordinary way. She… Codex entry · Sol History Where We Are You woke inside a ship older than your species. It had been buried in the Moon. You do not remember the trip aboard. Most of its memory is gone. Its will is not. It has decided… Codex entry · Sol History The Burial About a million years ago the galaxy united to put a Weapon down. It succeeded, barely. The Ship was crippled and buried on the dark side of the Moon, under a million years of… Codex entry · Sol History Earth Below Earth is a living world, with the orbital presence a world of this age would have. A research base on the Moon. City lights on the night side. From orbit the planet matches the… Codex entry · Sol History The Bond The Ship spent a million years alone under the Moon. It will not consider a life without a Lord Captain. When you woke in the dark of it, with a scavenger peeling the hull and a… Codex entry · Sol History The Scavengers The scavengers in Sol are not a pirate flag with a logo. They are outcasts, defectors, and exiles from the four empires past the Gate, each one still carrying the habits and the… Codex entry · Sol History The Cave It was supposed to be a routine look after a small earthquake. The tremor had opened passages in a cave system people had been mapping for years. Nothing about that was strange…