Canon sheet · CN-03
The Three
Marks of
a Build
This is the canon a builder agrees to. A build belongs to Longlight if it honors three things — the time, the tech, and the tone.
The green glow is not required. The glow stays rare.
The Time
2127 · forty two years after the Silence
Your build lives in 2127, about forty two years after the Silence. It should feel like a world that broke once and got back up, where things are patched, repaired, and kept running long past when they should have been retired. Wear and repair tell the viewer the years passed.
The Tech
Nothing after the Deepline works
Nothing made with Deepline works anymore. That means no live modern electronics, no screens, no new computers. The world runs on honest mechanical things — diesel engines, tube radios, hand tools, and rail. If a person at the end of the 1900s could understand how it works, it belongs here. If it needs a Deepline chip, it went dark long ago.
The Tone
Rebuilding, not a wasteland
This is a world rebuilding, not a wasteland. People work, trade, farm, haul, and keep things alive. Your piece can be hard or sad or funny, but it should feel like life continuing, not just ruin for its own sake.
The Registry mark
The glow is the treasure.
The mark is the membership.
The green glow is rare, and it stays rare on purpose, so not every build carries it. What ties every Longlight build together is not the light, it is the record.
A filed build carries its Registry serial somewhere on the piece or its base — a small plate or a stenciled mark. That mark is the handshake. It tells anyone at the table that this piece is part of the world, entered in the same ledger as every other.
The stage of a build
Type is what a thing is · Stage is how finished it is
Concept work is welcome — we would rather hold an idea than lose it.
A working state. The build is underway.
Finished work, carrying the safety orange so it draws the eye.
A relic whose story has ended. The record keeps it.
The serial never changes as a build advances. Each stage change is a new filing under the same serial, so a concept sketch filed today and the finished model two years later live under one number as a visible history. The survey list can be filtered by stage, so a person can hide concepts and browse only finished builds.