Tether silhouette from the approach
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The Pale Frontier
A lawless expanse beyond the City built around a collapsed orbital tether, where the Light behaves like weather rather than a resource and nothing you build is guaranteed to survive the season.
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The idea
The tether came down eighty years ago and the ice took the rest. What is left is a corridor of wreckage two hundred kilometres long, warm enough to live in only where the cable still holds a charge.
Light here is not something you spend. It arrives, it moves, and it leaves, and the people who stayed learned to read it the way sailors read weather.
Answering How should consequences shape the world and its stories?
What this enables
- A destination that is dangerous for environmental reasons, not just enemy density
- Player structures that persist and decay between seasons
- Light as a forecast rather than a meter
- Factions defined by which stretch of cable they hold
Timeline
- The tether is built
- The Collapse
- The cable falls
- Eighty winters
- First Guardian arrival
Explorations
Settlement under the cable
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All explorations 2
Tether silhouette from the approach
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Settlement under the cable
ErebusLich
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