Maren
Protagonist
Relic hunter, smuggler of memory, around 28. She spent eighteen months buying fragments of the Contract's past — because the Contract took her father.
Confirmed in the text
Codex · knowledge base · year 94 of the New Reckoning
The World
A dying empire on file — layer by layer.
File I
Characters
File II
Factions and technology
The Imperial Energy Contract
A fallen steam-power monopoly. The institutional backdrop of everything that went wrong. Its relation to "the Quarters" — undetermined.
The Symbiosis Programme
Experimental human–machine nerve couplings. In the box reserved for medical annotations, in a clerk's hand: Symbiosis — approved.
The Hour Calibre
The title mechanism — Achen & Sons. The central node of the hall of seven chairs. It ticks, though no one has wound it in decades.
File III
Places and events
Westergaard Cathedral
Main location · Facility no. 7
A brass foundry and a grave. Underground layers, the hall of seven chairs, the "someone else's work" tunnel, the Quarters room.
The Rotterdam disaster
Event · year 76 NR
The proving ground of the Symbiosis Programme. The death of Maren's father. "Technical failure, cause undetermined."
Timeline · the New Reckoning
Binding document
A year-by-year chronology — from the Contract going live, through Rotterdam (76), to the shutdown of Facility no. 7 (87).
Atlas · gallery
Four Seasons
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