Field Reference Chart · Sun Chronicles · K. Elliott · verified compendium
THE LOCAL BELT of STARS
A topological survey of the post-collapse beacon network, knnu corridors, and political regions in Unconquerable Sun & Furious Heaven .
Positions are force-laid , not physical — the novels give no coordinates, only the relational topology of beacon pairings and the knnu gaps that bridge them. Lines are paired connections , not distances. Generated from the verified topology.json; re-laid automatically as the compendium grows.
Force-directed layout Drag nodes · scroll to zoom · drag canvas to pan · hover for detail Dead beacons noted in node labels (†)
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REPUBLIC OF CHAONIA
PHENE EMPIRE
YELE LEAGUE
TRINITY COALITION
MISHIRRU PROVINCE
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route Agate Aila Alabaster Alternity ★ ANCHOR 11β · 11-beacon · 8+3† Arafel Aspera ★ AUGER 7β · hydra ★ AXIOM 7β · hydra Belt of Jewels terminus Cataract 2β · janus ★ CHAONIA 5β · scylla Cut Stone ★ DESTINY 7β · hydra Eel Gulf Gardens ? The Gyre off-grid Harahuvati Hatti Haymarket 3β · cerberus Hellion 1β · terminus Hunger Jorsha Kanesh 5β · scylla ⚑ Karnos 7β · hydra · 6+1† Kaska Kumbala Landfall 1β · terminus Larissa Maras Shantiya Meli Molossia 5β · scylla Na Iri Nalanda Oasis Old Spiral Oracle waypoint Pool waypoint Rake Refuge Sandbank Sankore Scepter Sena Sleepless 2β · janus Sogdia Limit Spring waypoint Tranquility Harbor station Tarsa Temple waypoint Thesprotis 5β · scylla Tomb waypoint Tranquility Troia 3β · cerberus ★ TSURRU 3β · cerberus? Windworn ★ YELE 11β · 11-beacon · 8+3†
Connections
○ = unnamed intermediate (dashed = inferred) Line style marks the link type (beacon · knnu · route); how often a link is travelled is not styled. Faint grey dashes mark inferred or length-unknown routes.
Systems
★ + ring · colour = polity colour = polity Beacon-count nicknames follow the prime rule: 1 terminus · 2 janus · 3 cerberus · 5 scylla · 7 hydra · 11 (unnamed). Label format: 11β · 8+3† = 11 total, 8 functional, 3 dead.
Political Regions
Reading the Chart
Topology, not geography. Position implies relational role (hub, periphery, frontier), not distance.
TEC — Tinker-Evers-Chance Convergence, a rare three-way mutual beacon link. Two exist: the Chaonian core and the Trinity Coalition.
Karnos is the load-bearing junction — the one hub wiring Chaonia, Phene, the Trinity back door, and the outer rim together.
Provenance & caveats
· Every node and edge traces to the verified, source-cited compendium; the map is generated from data/topology.json, which build-topology.py derives automatically from the compendium's topology blocks.
· Many route edges have unnamed intermediates (Yele→Chaonia 3 hops, Harahuvati→Destiny 3 drops); these are drawn as small hollow placeholder nodes strung along the route, not asserted as named systems.
· The unnamed 8th Mishirru core system, Karnos's dead 7th-beacon pair, and the destinations of most Yele/Anchor beacons remain open questions — absent here by design.
· The Gyre lies off the beacon grid (shown as an off-grid node); the Apsaras homeworld ("She Who Bore Them All"), the collapsed hub, is lost and not graphed at all.
Sourced only from Unconquerable Sun (2020) and Furious Heaven (2023). Lady Chaos (forthcoming) may revise sections.