Era IV · ENTROPY
This is the twilight of mankind. As Errack burns, the remnants of civilisation endure as rare and fragile relics amid ashen wastelands, fortress-cities and abandoned infrastructure. Humanity has cast its gaze skyward in search of refuge and resources, only to meet the Naranor face-to-face across the cold expanse of the Degel System. The old struggle has escaped the planet; survival is now measured in habitats, fleets and light-minutes.
ENTROPY: Degel theatreErrack and the inner warExplore maps The world right now
Across scorched Errack, Myrkild prowl through the ruins of humanity's former dominion while the surviving population huddles behind colossal walls. Cities such as Kisara remain grim fortifications that defy both time and fate, but every bastion is dependent on ageing shields, rationed atmosphere and supply routes that can be severed from orbit.
Humanity seeks refuge among stations, moons and distant settlements. The Imperium Coalition is an uneasy union forged in crisis, while independent fortress-fleets and civilian pathfinders create their own redundancies. Beyond them, the Naranor no longer exist as a rumour hidden behind malformed evidence. Their relays, vessels and impossible geometries make the scale of the surrounding threat impossible to ignore.
Primer
Enough context to enter the era without front-loading the encyclopaedia.
People & power
Coalitions, fortress-fleets, habitat authorities and military commands govern populations whose survival systems cannot tolerate prolonged political paralysis. Cooperation is real, but so are rationing, compulsory augmentation and the fear that any ally may preserve itself by abandoning the rest.
Read the Juggernaut CompactThe Wyrd
Resonance is engineered into transit structures, weapons, communications and altered bodies. Gate ignition can fold distance and make interplanetary survival possible, but every successful corridor also demonstrates that humanity is manipulating a structure it did not create and cannot fully contain.
Witness GARMIR gate ignitionBeyond Errack
Naranor relays and vessels confirm an organised nonhuman presence operating beyond human scale. Vacuum sieges, signal echoes and contested memories force commanders to treat distance, information and identity as active terrain rather than passive conditions.
Find the first confirmed relayPowers of the age
The powers of ENTROPY are coalitions, mobile fortresses, migration fleets and nonhuman civilisations. Territory matters less than who can preserve life, move through the void and survive the loss of a world.
An uneasy union of former rival blocs combining military reach, industry and surviving orbital infrastructure against a threat no member can face alone.
Independent fortress-fleets bound by mutual rescue, ammunition interchange and shared protocols for contact with the Naranor.
Civilian-led exodus formations establishing redundant settlements beyond mapped war corridors and the authority of the old planetary powers.
Distributed bio-mechanical powers whose relays, vessels and assembled bodies operate across scales that human strategy is only beginning to comprehend.
What people know
Each age interprets its evidence through the institutions, instruments and fears it possesses. Greater visibility does not guarantee a complete explanation.
The record of the age
The timeline below follows disclosures, exoduses, gate ignitions, schisms and vacuum sieges that define ENTROPY. The surviving record is distributed across worlds because no single archive is expected to endure.
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11,403
A deep-range array identified an artificial relay whose geometry matched no human or Myrkild construction.
14 Þriðimanuthur, 11,418
Leaked archives revealed that Abberath manifestations had been catalogued, cultivated and suppressed for centuries.
11,431 — 11,437
Civilian pathfinder fleets departed Errack in staggered waves to establish redundant human settlements beyond mapped war corridors.
Annarrmanuthur, 11,446
Independent fortress-fleets agreed to mutual rescue, ammunition interchange and shared Naranor contact protocols.
13 Blodmanuthur, 11,462 — 16 Sólmanuthur, 11,464
Naranor vessels isolated Satol Reach and fought a siege in which distance, momentum and memory became contested terrain.
Sextimanuthur, 11,479
A dormant Vodr artefact emitted a system-wide pattern interpreted as message, map and biological instruction.
11 Elleftamanuthur, 11,502
A proposal to recognise selected Myrkild intelligences as legal persons divided human governments and hunter orders.
16 Sólmanuthur, 11,517
The GARMIR transit structure opened a stable corridor through folded space for eleven minutes.
16 Sólmanuthur, 11,517
Minutes after the GARMIR corridor closed, an identical ignition signature appeared beyond the mapped edge of human space.
Engimanutur 02, 11,596
On a leap intercalary day, the major human polities reconciled their drifting clocks to one civil chronology for the last time.
Leaked archives revealed that Abberath manifestations had been catalogued, cultivated and suppressed for centuries.
A deep-range array identified an artificial relay whose geometry matched no human or Myrkild construction.
The GARMIR transit structure opened a stable corridor through folded space for eleven minutes.
Minutes after the GARMIR corridor closed, an identical ignition signature appeared beyond the mapped edge of human space.
Independent fortress-fleets agreed to mutual rescue, ammunition interchange and shared Naranor contact protocols.
On a leap intercalary day, the major human polities reconciled their drifting clocks to one civil chronology for the last time.
A proposal to recognise selected Myrkild intelligences as legal persons divided human governments and hunter orders.
Civilian pathfinder fleets departed Errack in staggered waves to establish redundant human settlements beyond mapped war corridors.
Naranor vessels isolated Satol Reach and fought a siege in which distance, momentum and memory became contested terrain.
A dormant Vodr artefact emitted a system-wide pattern interpreted as message, map and biological instruction.
