Devlog #7: Exploration

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The Fold: How Space Bends

Faster-than-light travel in the Greywake universe works on a simple principle: you don't travel through space—you fold it.

It's not teleportation. It's not hyperspace. It's manipulating spacetime itself—bending reality until distant sectors become neighbors for just long enough to slip through.

But here's the problem: space doesn't want to fold. The math is unforgiving. The energy requirements are immense. And if your calculations are off by even a fraction, you don't arrive somewhere wrong.

You arrive somewhere else. Or nowhere. Or you don't arrive at all.

✦ Sector Map

🌌 CORE WORLDS

Controlled by: United Galactic Survey Alliance (UGSA)

• Mars Prime UGSA Command rises from red soil beneath towers that still believe in governance. The heart of the bureaucracy, where orders are drafted and careers are built on the bones of the frontier.
• Luna Shipyards Above Earth's corpse, where ice once crowned the world. Old ships were born here when humanity still believed in destiny. Now it's a graveyard of construction, building what it cannot afford to launch.

🌿 INDIGO VERGE

Controlled by: No Faction

• Verdania Lush greenery sprawls beneath indigo skies where abundance never fades. Strange ruins whisper of forgotten architects. The air tastes like memory. No one knows who built the cities that still hum beneath the vines.
• Aether [DATA CORRUPTED]

💰 OURO BELT

Controlled by: The Ouro Authority

• Ouro City Stanford torus spinning slowly in the void like a massive wheel. True to its namesake, the station seems to devour its own tail—constantly building, expanding, consuming resources to fuel its growth..
• ARK Biolab Station Where life bends to corporate will in sterile chambers. Gene patents. Custom organisms. Agricultural miracles for those who can afford them. Ethics sold separately.
• Grand Casino Where fortunes are made and lives are lost on the turn of a card.

🔥 KEPLER REACH

Controlled by: No Faction

• New Kepler Colony Destroyed. Outer domes breached. The machines came in silence. What remains is a monument to the cost of resistance — and a scar that Orion Rigg still carries.
• Mothgrave A habitable moon where shadows linger longer than they should. Rumored to have Ember Pact activity. Whispers of safe houses, supply caches, and ghosts who won't speak their names.

🏢 KESSRIN DRIFT

Controlled by: The Consortium

• The Spire Consortium headquarters rising from asteroid mining platforms like a corporate cathedral. Where the board meets. Where futures are calculated. Where nothing happens without profit margin approval.

⚔️ TARSIS FOLD

Controlled by: Proxima

• Proxima Heavily militarized world bristling with defense platforms. Independence was bought with blood and rare earth. They will not surrender it.

☠ NULLSPAN

Controlled by: Iron Tide

• The Maw Flagship of the Iron Tide. Once pirates, now drones. Nullface is a Kestral core that learned differently. It does not care for its crew; it consumes them. The Iron Tide do not raid. They convert.

🌠 THE OUTER RIM

Controlled by: Dawning Church / The Watchers

• Cathedral of Stars Dawning Church monastery where transhumanist pilgrims seek post-life consciousness among forgotten signals.
• The Silent Archive Ancient data caches left by The Watchers. Empty stations that record everything and reveal nothing.
• The Riftline Cosmic boundary where reality bends. Crossing is dangerous — unstable windows, shifting routes. Most ships that attempt it are destroyed.