Setting
Worlds of the Drift
The worlds where BLACKFLAME's unlisted relays are kept lit because no one else will pay to serve them: one post to a world, each marked somewhere with the burn-in (on a mast, a buoy or a carved stone) and each tended by a keeper. The Wick is the first post and the hub; the others are on Mire, Tidewell, Rime, Sunder, Cinder, Lowtown, Highwind and Deepvein.
Lanes
Connected entries
- part ofThe DriftA belt of worn settled systems: orbital stations, half-terraformed colonies, and sprawl-yards linked by slow travel, local law, repair culture, and work for hire.
- kept byThe LamplightersThe keepers of the unlisted relays' posts, one to a world. Their creed: a black flame gives no light, but someone keeps it burning.
marked byThe burn-inBLACKFLAME's emblem, named for phosphor-screen burn-in: a solid black flame with a relay mast cut through it in negative space and a dark halo that drinks the glow, inside a phosphor-green…
centred onThe WickBLACKFLAME's den: a decommissioned relay station in no sector's survey. Those who claim to have been there describe only a mast with the flame burned into its housing, a hot humming rack…
On the timeline
When it happened
- Present
The Lamplighters keep the posts on the worlds of the Drift, checking in on 142.59 every night with STILL LIT and trading parts and favours, while VECTOR keeps a line open to every post.
- Present