Registry print code RA-2127-7 · Regional edition 2127
Known relics, roads, settlements, and recovery zones
The apocalypse did not end civilization. It interrupted it. This is the whole record of the world our builds live in, printed as the Registry prints it, and free to anyone who wants it.
Full document
The complete story bible in one PDF. Print it, mark it up, carry it to a show, or read it on a screen. It is a living document, corrected in the field, so expect this file to change as the record does. Everything on the rest of this site is drawn from it.
To the bearer
Whether you bought this book, traded for it, inherited it, or found it on a seat nobody came back for, it is yours now. And now that it is yours, you should know what you agreed to. Your mission has three parts.
Read the entry before you take the road. Check the survey date before you trust the bridge. Know the marks of the people you will meet before you decide what their wave means. Every warning in this book was earned by somebody, and the cheapest way to honor them is to arrive prepared.
You will find mistakes in these pages, and finding them is not a failure of the book. It is the book working. Roads wash out, wells go bad, towns change their minds, and machines that were dark last spring may be glowing now. When the world and the page disagree, the world is right, so fix the page. Write in pencil, sign your name, and date it.
This book is not a possession. It is a relay. When your traveling days end, or when you meet somebody who needs it more, hand it over with your corrections inside. A worn copy full of strangers' handwriting is worth ten clean ones, because a clean copy has only been read, and a worn one has been lived.
One more thing, bearer
Sooner or later you will see the Longlight, a soft green shine coming off something the old world left behind. You are looking at a candle somebody lit on purpose before the dark came down, burning slow so that you, stranger, would still have light. Write down where. Write down when. Carry the report to the next station, the next Keeper, the next archive house, and add what you saw to what we know.
The world broke once because it trusted without checking. You are holding the habit that fixes that. Walk far, write small, and come back with corrections.
The Registry, Est. 2100
Table of contents · chapters with a page on this site are linked
Opening Notice
Why the book exists and who paid for it
02Chronology for Field Readers
2036 to 2127, year by year
03The Story As the Schoolhouses Tell It
The common telling
04The Longlight
The glow, and Cores, Modules and Slivers
05How to Read This Atlas
Begin with the infrastructure
06Registry Codes and Map Legend
Site codes, risk marks, road chalk
07Technology Types
Relics, restoration, mechanical, survival
08The People of the Road
Every group, their marks and their palettes
09The Salvage Trade
Claims, scales, date stamps and clean stock
10Camps, Posts, and Home Grounds
What each group's ground looks like
11Common Road Encounters
Eight scenes worth building
Atlas Regions
Visual and practical ecosystems
Settlement Gazetteer
Towns and their anchors
The Machines
The Thirteen and what became of them
Vehicles and Road Service
What rolls, and on what fuel
Open Registry Questions
Deliberately unanswered
Stories and Testimonies
Voices from the ledgers
Drafts for Review
Not yet canon
Compiler note
Local corrections are not errors. If the town calls a machine Shepherd and the Registry calls it CR-07, write both.