LIGHTCONE — The dark answers slowly.

LIGHTCONE

the dark answers slowly.

The star map is a desktop instrument — a hundred thousand stars need the big glass.

A companion app for the pocket — the Mind's dials, your events, the WAKE calls — is on its way. Until then:

…or return on a desktop, where the whole sky fits.

Multiple stars at this point

Missions

Once a probe leaves home, it's out there. Until it arrives and its report reaches us — light-speed back from however far it got — we know only what the calendar tells us.

No missions on the board.

Atlas

Every star you've touched — by passive observation, deep-survey, or a probe in flight. Click a row to fly there.

Name	Spectral	Distance (ly)	Observation	Tx	Probes

System

instrumented — mid-flight telemetry

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terrestrial gas giant ice giant asteroid belt habitable zone

Body

Add ships

No ships yet.

⚔ Doctrine — if the sky is not empty

Benefactor (gave you an insight) Correspondent (an open thread) Stranger Your own drifted child

Engage only if the read of the odds ≥ 1.5×

⛨ Screen the civilians — escorts die covering the retreat ⚑ Make this card my STANDING doctrine — every convoy after this one (the Mind's own included) launches under it

Strike grade — what a warship-only convoy DOES if its law says strike and it wins

Fallback waypoint (the Gilgamesh clause, +8% energy)

The read is only as good as the instruments aboard — a scout in the convoy reads the sky at σ≈5%; without one you are guessing at the glow. Luck is purchasable: it is called reconnaissance.

Cost— Output

Speed—

Distance— ly

ETA—

The Dome · your ancestral sky

looking up

Perceived limit 6.0

Rate 1× day 0 · 00:00

drag: look around · scroll: zoom · click a star: open its system · ✎ draw: connect stars into a figure · play + rate: watch the sky rotate — stars and wanderers rise and set

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Missions

Atlas

System

Body

Compose a fleet

Cast a signal

The Dome · your ancestral sky

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