Places & worlds
Worlds, cities, regions and significant locations documented in the story.
142 profiles in this collection
30 places at the heart of P.X.
Thirty illustrated locations, in the author’s selected order. Continue to subsequent pages for the remaining 112 places. Full articles contain Book I spoilers; Iowa’s artwork requires a separate reveal.
About these collections and the Snorvix Codex
The main collections group people, places and substantive subjects. Additional Codex records holds chapter-specific observations, temporary states and procedural notes. Browse by name, or search across this collection. Each profile gathers its chapter entries from Annex IV: The Snorvix Codex, with recurring names and title variants brought together. Introductions are brief; the full reports remain closed until you open them. Archive names can hint at later events.
Chapter limits are optional and control which reports appear inside a profile. Original source voices, wording and chapter references are preserved. Lyrava’s profile is drawn from the author’s published-design material.
Aether Lance Compound
Humanity’s defence project, built under an unforgiving clock on New Zealand’s Canterbury Plains.
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Asteroid (602755) Carson
An object whose changing trajectory draws scientific observation into the centre of humanity’s response.
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Carson Family Home
The familiar rooms where the Carson family’s ordinary life makes the wider conflict personal.
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Ballhausplatz
The Vienna setting where Conrad Laurent’s work opens the story in June 1815.
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Atacama Observatory Base Facility
Kenji Nakamura’s ground base for observing and interpreting the sky above the Atacama.
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The Quarterdeck
An apparently forgotten arcade becomes one of Kai’s most unsettling meeting places.
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UN General Assembly Chamber
A recognisable human chamber becomes a stage for decisions at planetary scale.
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Vespera Station AV-565
A cultivated-looking sentinel near a contested frontier, built for vigilance rather than comfort.
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Cambridge ISC Facility
Humanity’s scientific and international response finds an organisational centre at Cambridge.
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Neutral Zone
A formally neutral region whose resources and access shape the conflict around Earth.
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Sol (Sol System)
Humanity’s stellar home, viewed through competing claims about neutrality and control.
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Arcanis Prime
An Arcanian setting of academy terraces, governance and advanced institutions.
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Nexus Laboratories
A network of human laboratories probing different frontiers of physics and communication.
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Canterbury Plains
The open agricultural landscape that gives Aether Lance its scale and exposure.
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Reykjavik Workshop Safehouse
Kyrion’s hidden workshop combines alien engineering with the texture of a lived-in household.
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QPS Chamber
The enclosed stabiliser space where technical integrity becomes an immediate human concern.
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Singapore
A civilian urban setting that makes the pressure of interstellar power tangible.
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Planetary Command Center
A hardened human command environment where planetary defence decisions converge.
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Atlas’s Apartment, Bellingham
A modest Bellingham apartment anchors Atlas’s independent life and time with his father.
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Farmhouse Near Hope
An isolated structure near Hope becomes consequential in the personal-security thread.
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Gansu Mountain Base
Human infrastructure and Theron design meet beneath the mountains of Gansu.
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Waimakariri Valley Test Site
A distinct New Zealand landscape gives the programme its testing stage.
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Seville Archives (General Archive of the Indies)
A real archival institution gives Atlas’s historical thread a material source of evidence.
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Harborview Medical Center (Cardiac ICU)
A recognisable Seattle hospital grounds the novel’s cardiac sequence in ordinary clinical space.
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Nyxara Surgical Deck
Nyxara’s surgical space links orbital capability with human vulnerability.
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Unlit Expanse
The edge of mapped routes carries uncertainty rather than a confirmed account of what lies beyond.
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Varlon
The surviving moon of Varikon Prime gives resistance beyond Earth a concrete setting.
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Elysara
A world whose recovery offers a comparison for humanity’s own choices.
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Seattle
Seattle establishes Kai’s ordinary world before his responsibilities expand beyond Earth.
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An agricultural setting becomes the site of one of the novel’s most distinctive unexplained events.
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