The Setting

The World

A binary system a thousand years past its golden age, where the light is failing and everyone is fighting over what's left.

Alpha & Lucen

Two suns, one long dusk

The system turns around a binary pair — Alpha, the fierce primary, and Lucen, its cold companion. A millennium ago the great civilization of Elyria fell. What followed was not a single catastrophe but a slow one — a spreading dark called the Fade — and the people who remain live inside the long shadow of a brilliance they can barely remember.

The tragedy runs in a sequence the whole system still measures itself against: Elyria falls → the Shatter → the Fade → the Veil.

Twin suns over a lattice landscape

The Powers

Who fights for the light

The Concordance

The parliament of the inner worlds — orderly, ceremonial, sure of its own righteousness. It sent the salvage fleets; its seat is Elira.

The Dominion

A militarized homeworld and its fleets — the regime that holds ground hard and covets what the old world left behind. Rival of the Concordance.

The Elyria Field

The Shattered Belt — the asteroid remains of Elyria, worked by the salvage lord Barret and the Slag Kings, where the relics wash up.

The Hollow

The criminal substrate of the smaller planets — black markets, ledgers, and debts. It profits from the cold, and it never forgets who owes.

The Fade

A thousand years of slow decay creeping in from the edges — dimming suns, dead relays, quiet stations. Everyone measures their life against it.

The Veil & the Shatter

The dark region made after the fall, and the ring of ruins at its heart — broken cathedrals of a civilization that understood things the living have forgotten.

Cartography

Charts of the system

The binary and its neighbours — from the inner worlds to the Shattered Belt and the Veil. Click any chart to view it full-size.

Alpha–Lucen system navigation chart
Alpha–Lucen — navigation chart — Valcor, Orionis, Terra Nova, Elira, Calyx, the Lee, the Shatter, the Veil
The Shatter star chart
The Shatter — a monument to the lost world of Elyria
Faction & territory map
Powers & territories — Concordance, Dominion, the Hollow, the Ledger
The Fallen Realm of Alpha-Lucen infographic
The fallen realm — worlds, stations, routes & hazards
The Violet Veil nebula map
The Violet Veil — the inner worlds & the Elyria Field

Ports of Call

Places in the dark