Open questions & resolved — Sun Chronicles compendium¶
Open¶
What are Tsurru System's hidden beacons, and where do they lead?¶
Tier: open
Tsurru is charted with three beacons (to Meli, to Kumbala, and a dead one on Tsurru
Prime) but has at least a fourth — discovered, dead/undocumented — and, by the prime
rule, must have a fifth. The destinations of the hidden beacons, and why the system was
mis-catalogued, are open (FH ch. 66). See Tsurru in systems.md.
How does the "collapse of the Apsaras Convergence" relate to the general beacon collapse / the Gap?¶
Tier: open
US ch. 4 names the collapse of the Apsaras Convergence as the trigger for the pre-Chaonian interregnum; US ch. 42 describes a network collapse that created the Gap. Whether these are the same event, sequential, or unrelated is not established in the passages found so far.
Are the three beacon-hops of the Yele→Chaonia route ever named?¶
Tier: open (sharpened — 1 of 3 now identified)
The route is given only as a hop-count — "a short and easy three-beacons hop from Yele
System to Chaonia" (FH ch. 58). Larissa is canonically on the route (FH ch. 27,
"on the route between Chaonia and Yele") — so 1 of the 3 hops is identified. We model
Larissa as the Yele-adjacent slot (see Larissa entry in systems.md),
which leaves 1 unnamed intermediate between Larissa and Chaonia. Two things remain open:
(a) Larissa's actual slot on the chain (Yele-adjacent / middle / Chaonia-adjacent — the
text doesn't pin it); (b) the name of the remaining intermediate.
Where exactly do the outer-rim caravan route's knnu gaps fall, and what is the unnamed mid-route system?¶
Tier: open
The route order is now largely recovered (FH ch. 53, 57; see systems.md):
Karnos → Na Iri → Kaska → Hatti → Samuha → Rosetta → Nusrat Quince → [≈4 knnu gaps incl. the
Proxima haul] → Orfeo → [a named-but-withheld "unpronounceable" system] → Segovia →
T-Harbor → Tranquility → Sogdia Limit. What stays open: the exact count/placement of the
knnu gaps (given loosely as 3, "4 incl. the Proxima haul," "four or five") and the identity
of the unnamed system between Orfeo and Segovia. (Tranquility's Phene control is now
confirmed canon — FH ch. 17/20/77 — no longer inferred.)
Where do Yele System's other beacons lead, and what are the Yele League's member systems?¶
Tier: open (sharpened — 3 of 8 working now routed; 5 unmapped)
Yele has 11 beacons: 3 dead, 8 working (FH ch. 90). Of the 8 working, 3 are routed: to Nalanda (3-hop chain, FH ch. 60), to Sankore (3-hop chain, FH ch. 60), and to Chaonia (3-hop chain via Larissa, FH ch. 27 + 58). The remaining 5 working beacons have unmapped destinations.
Named League members: Yele, Nalanda, Sankore, Takshashila, Al-Quaraouiyine, Gondishapur, Padua (US ch. 48), plus Larissa (Yele-origin, Chaonia-assimilated). That's 8 named systems; the four new ones (Takshashila etc.) are surfaced only via merchant-freighter registries and have no asserted beacon link to Yele — they are candidates for some of the 5 unmapped destinations. Full membership of the League is still not enumerated.
A related open: the 6 unnamed intermediate beacons along the 3 chains (2 between Yele and Nalanda; 2 between Yele and Sankore; 1 between Larissa and Chaonia).
What is the Yele League's origin / founding?¶
Tier: open (sharpened — minimum age now anchored)
The books give the Phene and Mishirru detailed origin stories but no founding account for the Yele League. What's now anchored: Yele Prime / Congress Moon has been continuously inhabited at least ~1,800 years — a heritage temple on Congress Moon is explicitly dated "eighteen hundred years ago" (FH ch. 15). Yele also inherited its eleven-beacon hub status "in the wake of the collapse" (FH ch. 15) and was the regional hegemon for generations after Eel Gulf (US ch. 4). Still open: the political founding of the League (event, date, charter); whether the Yele descend from Mishirru/Argosy stock like the Phene; and who held Yele's regional pre-eminence pre-collapse, if anyone.
Eel Gulf timing — canonical tension between two passages¶
Tier: open
Two anchors don't reconcile cleanly: - ~50 years pre-FH: a lancer was "salvaged after fifty years drifting," damaged at Eel Gulf (FH ch. 95). - ~120–145 years pre-FH: Manu's aside about Eel Gulf — "thirty years after that my illustrious forebears beat the socks off your magnificent fleet" — referring to Demon Walls "six generations ago" (US ch. 36); six generations at ~25 yrs ≈ 150 yrs to Demon Walls + 30 = ~120 yrs pre-US.
Plausible resolutions: (a) Manu's "thirty years after" refers to a different earlier Phene–Yele engagement, not Eel Gulf; (b) "fifty years drifting" doesn't equate "fifty years since the battle" (a ghost ship can drift a fraction of total elapsed time before salvage); (c) authorial drift. Record as a flagged tension, don't silently pick one.
Who is the "famous admiral" who mentored Eirene during her hostage years in Yele?¶
Tier: open
Eirene "spent two years in the Yele League, essentially as a hostage… a famous admiral took an interest in her and took her under her wing" (FH ch. 52). The admiral is never named. Plausibly significant given Eirene later became elected Yele strategos — would illuminate the factional politics that admitted a Chaonian queen-marshal to a Yele military office.
Beacon counts / classes still unstated for many mapped systems¶
Tier: open
Confirmed to exist and sit on named routes, but with no stated beacon count/class:
Meli, Kumbala (Trinity), Nalanda, Sankore (Yele frontier), Harahuvati ("three
drops to Destiny" is a route hop-count), and the Mishirru↔Phene corridor systems Sena,
Aila, Jorsha, Alternity, Agate, Old Spiral, Refuge, Hunger, Rake, Gardens. Auger and
Axiom are each stated as seven-beacon (FH ch. 86) but without Anchor's functional/dead
split. All recorded class: unknown (or total-only) in their topology blocks.
Which internal Trinity links are direct beacon edges?¶
Tier: open (narrowed — Nalanda↔Sankore is now resolved, see Resolved section)
The Trinity "island" (FH ch. 60) implies all three of Meli/Kumbala/Tsurru are mutually linked, but only Tsurru↔Meli and Tsurru↔Kumbala are independently witnessed — Meli↔Kumbala as a direct beacon is inferred from the "island" language, not shown.
How many beacons did the Apsaras homeworld have, and where is it?¶
Tier: open (sharpened — 11→13 progression is now the leading on-page hypothesis)
The Apsaras homeworld ("She Who Bore Them All") was originally built with eleven radial beacons, all traffic routed through it (FH ch. 15). The 11→13 progression is now the dominant on-page hypothesis for the collapse: a pre-collapse map shows 13 beacons in the system (US ch. 42), and "many have speculated that the construction of twelfth and thirteenth beacons in a single system is what overloaded and crashed the network." FH ch. 60 reinforces this: "in this region, called the Middle Gap, most connections failed when the thirteen beacons of the Apsaras home world underwent some manner of cataclysmic breakdown." Sun (FH ch. 69) attributes the collapse to "the Apsaras who had overreached with their engineering". But the cause is explicitly canon-unknown (FH ch. 12: "Eight hundred years ago, parts of the beacon network had collapsed for reasons no one understood") — the overload theory is the loudest hypothesis, not the resolution. The system's location was lost in the collapse — "even the Argosies can't find it" (FH ch. 61). The Oracle at the Gyre (FH ch. 76) suggests Sun could find it, the Lady Chaos hook.
What did the Apsaras "plunder" from the Mishirru Gyre Archives, beyond navigation charts?¶
Tier: open
FH ch. 76: "The Apsaras Convergence never cooperated with this Archive by sharing any of their knowledge. Their messengers plundered what they desired from our stacks… They said they would return the navigational charts they stole, but we never saw them again." Only navigational charts are named on-page; the Oracle's phrasing ("plundered what they desired") implies broader knowledge taken. Whether this includes beacon-physics, Celestial-Empire records the Apsaras then rediscovered rather than invented (cf. US ch. 42 "invented, or discovered"), or other deep-past technologies — unstated. A central thread for Lady Chaos if Sun reaches She Who Bore Them All.
Are the "apsaras in the Gap" surviving minds, recordings, or hallucinations?¶
Tier: open
Persephone perceives "apsaras" — divine messenger figures — as living presences inside the beacon network during her transit-vision episodes (FH ch. 80: "The divine apsaras whose existence fathoms this insubstantial web that weaves in and out of the physical universe. Let us in."). US ch. 39 echoes: "It's rumored but never been confirmed that other presences live inside the network, minds that either aren't human at all or that once were human and were fractured when the inner system collapsed." Whether these are (a) the actual surviving consciousnesses of Apsaras-era engineers caught in the collapsing network, (b) residual memory imprints, (c) genuine non-human intelligences inhabiting the beacon-substrate, or (d) artefacts of Persephone's beacon-sickness, the text refuses to resolve.
Which specific dead beacons face the Gap vs the outer-network cascade?¶
Tier: open
The collapse left ~1/3 of beacons dead via two distinct patterns (US ch. 3): a central
catastrophe at She Who Bore Them All (11→13 overload hypothesis, FH ch. 60) and random
outer-network cascade ruptures. Canon names zero Gap-cascade pairs by destination
identity. The name Libertalia (FH ch. 66–67) refers to the in-system conurbation on
Tsurru's own 4th hidden dead beacon (see the Libertalia entry in systems.md
for the corrected modelling), not a paired lost system. Every dead beacon in the modern
map has an unnamed pair-end: Karnos's 7th, Yele's 3, Anchor's 3, Kanesh's 2, Hellion's
2nd, Odrysa's 2nd, and Tsurru's two confirmed dead (the Tsurru-Prime-anchored 3rd +
Libertalia 4th) plus the prime-rule-inferred 5th of unknown state.
The inference for Anchor's 3 dead and Yele's 3 dead facing the Gap is strong — both are 11-beacon survivors of the original Apsaras hub class, both lost an identical 3 to the collapse, and Persephone explicitly flags the symmetry as "curious" (FH ch. 90). Inner-radial connections to She Who Bore Them All would account for it precisely. But not stated. Other dead beacons (Karnos's 7th, Kanesh's 2, Hellion's 2nd, Odrysa's 2nd) could equally be outer-network cascade ruptures pointing at non-Gap surviving systems.
Persephone's strategic project (FH ch. 76) is to back-derive the pre-collapse beacon map from a Phene-Immortal memory device — i.e. this is an explicit in-universe open project. Until Lady Chaos or Persephone's reconstruction surfaces specific pair-end identifications, no dead beacon in the modern map has a canon pair-end; all are recorded as count-only (Gap-bound by inference where the symmetry argument is strong, outer-cascade or unknown otherwise).
Are the apsaras in the Gap surviving minds, residual recordings, or hallucinations?¶
Tier: open (sharpened — confirmed canonical, but nature unresolved)
Earlier framing in the file noted the rumour (US ch. 39); FH ch. 80 confirms the minds operationally — Persephone lets them in, addresses them as the divine apsaras, and contacts them. The phenomenon is canonical, not rumour. What stays open is their nature: (a) surviving consciousnesses of Apsaras-era people fractured in the collapse, (b) residual memory imprints, (c) non-human intelligences inhabiting the beacon substrate, or (d) artefacts of beacon-sickness perception. The Oracle's restoration prophecy (FH ch. 76) implies the Gap can be undone — what then happens to the minds inside is the load-bearing cosmological question for Lady Chaos.
Who were the Celestial Empire's people, and where was it physically?¶
Tier: open
We have a chronology (~4,000 yrs ago, fell to a plague of corrupted blood); a ruler (the last Celestial Emperor, a woman, now venerated as She Who Rises as the Sun); a court structure (13 exalted officials, 8 noble houses); and fragments (songs, sculpture, the Phene Anchor archives, the Yele scholar-linguists studying "forgotten languages of the Celestial Empire" — US ch. 35). The Gyre Oracle hints at Earth-like iconography in visions but never names coordinates. "The personal accounts of the last emperor, my namesake" (FH ch. 69) implies Mishirru holds CE primary sources. The Empire was almost certainly multi-stellar before the plague (per "the lands where humanity was born", US ch. 45) — a single homeworld plus colonies. Specific worlds: silent. Whether anyone survived in the abandoned CE territories (FH ch. 97 hints at "a remnant survived however they might or vanished one by one into oblivion") is canonically unanswered.
What is the unnamed eighth system of the Mishirru "core eight"?¶
Tier: open
The Mishirru core line names seven systems (Landfall, Arafel, Cataract, Oasis, Scepter, Alabaster, Destiny), but the queendom is the "core eight" and a shrine mural shows eight systems "in a semicircle" (FH ch. 76). The eighth is never named — no name, neighbours, or coordinates. One deduction: both line-endpoints are named (Landfall = terminus, Destiny = capital), so the 8th is not a line-endpoint — if it sits on the line it's an interior system; otherwise off-line. The book withholds this deliberately: Persephone dodges giving the model coordinates and is "hiding something" (FH ch. 76).
Is there a direct Auger↔Axiom beacon (a full Triple-A triad)?¶
Tier: open
Anchor↔Axiom and Anchor↔Auger are both named ("the Axiom and Auger Beacons," FH ch. 96). A direct Auger↔Axiom beacon — which would make the Triple A a fully-connected triad — is not stated; the three behave as one defensive cluster but the third edge is inference.
How does Harahuvati's three-drop route reach Destiny?¶
Tier: open
Harahuvati is "three beacon drops from Destiny" (FH ch. 60); the two intermediate systems
are unnamed. One candidate is the core-line join Harahuvati → Scepter → Alabaster →
Destiny (= 3 drops) — but it is not the only solution, for two reasons:
- Destiny is a seven-beacon hydra, so the core line is only one of its seven beacons
(the Alabaster link). The route to Harahuvati could run along any of the other six and
never touch the core line —
Destiny → X → Y → Harahuvatifits for any neighbour X. - The unnamed eighth "core" system (or an annexed system) could be an intermediate —
e.g.
Harahuvati → [8th] → Alabaster → Destiny— bypassing Scepter entirely.
So the Scepter join holds only under the unsupported assumption that the route follows the core line via Alabaster. The text never names Harahuvati's beacon endpoints beyond Kumbala (knnu in), Destiny (3 drops, core-ward) and Belt of Jewels (the rim terminus), nor links Scepter to it. Note: Destiny and Belt of Jewels are separate outbound directions — Harahuvati is the junction between them, and Belt of Jewels connects to Destiny only through Harahuvati ("Belt of Jewels didn't used to be connected to Destiny at all, not originally", FH ch. 76 — a later-added link), not by passing through Destiny. The model reflects this (two routes out of Harahuvati). Multiple candidates for the 3-drop intermediates; none confirmed. Do not assert.
Where did the half of the Phene fleets that escaped Anchor flee to?¶
Tier: open
"At least half of the Phene fleets had escaped Anchor System" with the Riders (FH ch. 97), but no destination beacon or direction is named. Anchor's only named outbound links are the Auger and Axiom Beacons (which the Phene had stripped of defenders), so escape toward Auger and/or Axiom is the natural inference — not stated.
Mishirru↔Phene corridor: Axiom's position relative to the Aila prong¶
Tier: open
Axiom's position relative to the Mishirru front isn't given; only Auger is
canon-confirmed as the Aila-facing reinforcement source for Anchor (FH ch. 89). (The
corridor systems' beacon counts are covered above.) — Previously also open: Alternity's
Mishirru-side partner; now reconciled as Aila (Aila → Alternity → Hunger → Rake →
Gardens → Anchor), making FH ch.83's "the two border systems" exact and consistent with
FH ch.78's fight-locations briefing. See the Jorsha & Alternity entry in
systems.md.
Which Mishirru systems lie between Destiny and Sena, and was Sena an original route?¶
Tier: open
That Sena connects back into Mishirru is not in doubt: Sun's Eighth Fleet "attacked
from Sena" and both invasion prongs were staged from Destiny (FH ch. 83), exactly as the
Aila prong is reached "via Destiny" (FH ch. 89) — so we record both Destiny→Sena and
Destiny→Aila as inferred routes. What stays open is the specific intermediate
systems on the Destiny→Sena leg (unnamed, hence the presentation-only padding rather
than a real hop count). Separately, the deep history is open: Sena is "marked as the
'official' boundary between Mishirru space and Phene space," and Persephone wonders whether
it "was on one of the original routes and, if so, which one? Or was it a later addition"
(FH ch. 76). A beacon-vision passage also has ships moving "from Sena System along a beacon
route that leads straight to Karnos" (FH ch. 82) — unreliable narration, noted but not
mapped.
Does the Phene outer rim (Tranquility region) have a named administrative unit?¶
Tier: open
The Tranquility / Sogdia Limit outer-rim cluster is confirmed Phene proper (FH ch. 17,
20, 77, 83) — the empire's far periphery, distinct from the Triple A heartland (Anchor
/ Auger / Axiom). But unlike Mishirru Province, which the books name, the Phene outer rim
is given no administrative name (only relative/geographic descriptors like "the outer
rim of beacon space"). So we model it as plain phene, not a separate region. Open whether
a province/march name exists and which syndicate(s) actually govern Tranquility System.
(Resolved the "is Tranquility a separate Mishirru-style province?" hypothesis: no.)
Hatti-region unknowns¶
Tier: open
From the Hatti deep dive, several gaps remain: (1) Maras Shantiya's wiring — it appears only in conquest roll-calls; no beacon, count, anchor, or neighbour is ever stated, so its position in the cluster is unknown (we dropped the earlier guessed Hatti edge). (2) Samuha System (FH ch. 53, "Chaonia also controls Hatti and Samuha Systems") — a real Chaonian caravan system between Hatti and Rosetta, otherwise undescribed (beacons, exact links); recorded in route metadata, not yet a graph node. (3) Whether "Hatti" has a formal Phene administrative province title — we now model it as its own region (control = Chaonia), but the books give only "the Hatti region/territories," no formal Phene name. (4) The internal hop structure of the Na Iri/Tarsa → Hatti → Kanesh corridor (FH ch. 58 gives it as routes "linking inward to Kanesh," not confirmed single beacons). (5) Eel Gulf↔Kanesh pairing and hop count (inferred from the severance, not stated). (6) Kanesh's two dead beacons — which of the original five, and where the three live ones point (only Troia confirmed). (7) "Lukka Prime" vs "Kanesh Prime" — US ch. 42 sites a Fourth-Kanesh-campaign Esplanade attack on Lukka Prime; FH ch. 11/16 site the Esplanade on Kanesh Prime. Two worlds, or an inconsistency? Unresolved.
Hesjan unknowns: cartel count, named cartels, home system, ethnic origin¶
Tier: open
The Hesjan are well-attested as a people (FH ch. 70 lists them as a peer of Phene / Chaonia / Yele / Mishirru / Skuda / Gatoi) but the books withhold several basics. Four specific gaps:
- How many cartels exist. "About half the cartels are allied with the Republic" (FH ch. 53) implies countability, but no count is given.
- Any named cartel. Across both books no individual cartel is named, even when specific cartels matter to the plot (Nézhā's consort's cartel, Makinde's grandmother's cartel, Sun's grandfather's treaty counterparty — none of them named).
- Hesjan home system(s) and capital. "Hesjan-controlled regions" (FH ch. 58) and "Hesjan territory" (FH ch. 47) are geographic abstractions; Rosetta is the outbound boundary but is not stated to be Hesjan-held itself. No home world or capital named.
- Ethnic origin. Mishirru, Phene, Yele, and Chaonia all have origin stories anchored to the Argosy-fleet diaspora. The Hesjan have none on the page — silent in canon.
Where do Hesjan symbionts come from?¶
Tier: open
Symbiont "bees" are central to Hesjan identity (sealed at 1,000 days, treated as courtesy sapients under cartel protocol, available in multiple specialised models — decapod, war, cargo, wasp, hornet, ribbon). The books do not say where they come from: are they engineered creatures (Hesjan biotech)? Native fauna of a Hesjan world that coevolved with humans? Apsaras-era leftovers, like the beacons themselves? A Yele philosopher even debates symbiont consciousness explicitly (FH ch. 55) without the question being resolved.
The half-Hesjan heir — Prince Jiàn's child¶
Tier: open
Prince Jiàn's cartel-honcho consort fled with their infant at the FH endgame; that child is half-Hesjan + half-Chaonian-royal, not yet sealed to a symbiont (under 1,000 days at FH's close, FH ch. 74). Open: the child's name, the refuge cartel, and the storyline role. A credible (currently inactive) dynastic claim against Sun's succession — almost certainly a Lady Chaos thread.
What is the etymology / referent of "Iros"?¶
Tier: open
The Order of Iros is named after nothing on-page — there is no system, planet, person, founder, oracle, or saint of that name across both books. The order's only on-page origin claim is descent from "the ancient Argosies" (FH ch. 8). Open whether Iros is a lost world, a mythic figure, an Apsaras-era founder, or pure invented nomenclature.
How are seers recruited and at what age?¶
Tier: open
Seer eyes are surgically implanted (FH ch. 9), not congenital, so an Iros novice is at some point cybernetically modified — but the books never describe the entry pathway. Childhood placement? Vocation-tested adults? Recruitment from poor families? Vows of celibacy or property? Hetty's father "fell in love and left the hermitage" (US ch. 43) — so we know exit is possible without expulsion — but how he entered, and the age of implantation, is silent.
Who replaced Prime Deo as head of the Order after Tjeker?¶
Tier: open
Sun's Tjeker raid killed the head of the entire Order in US (FH ch. 16 confirms his role). Through FH the seers are referred to as "fallen out of favor" but no new Prime is named. Open: is there a successor leading the militant wing after Kiran's death too? A Lady Chaos thread.
What was the Congress Moon bribery scandal actually about?¶
Tier: open
The seers' Congress Moon hermitage was "shuttered thirty years ago after a shocking bribery scandal that rocked the League" (FH ch. 15), in their core role as objective mediators (FH ch. 19). The books reference the scandal but never name the dispute, the bribers, or which seer(s) were corrupted. A potential entry point for the order's earlier political entanglements.
Resolved¶
~~What are the names of all seven Karnos beacons, and which is non-functional?~~¶
Tier: resolved
Resolved (FH ch. 4): the seven are named for their destination systems — Tarsa, Na
Iri, Windworn, Sleepless, Aspera, Hellion Terminus — plus a dead seventh whose paired
system is unknown; that dead beacon is the non-functional one. See Karnos in
systems.md.
~~What are the two eleven-beacon systems?~~¶
Tier: resolved
Resolved (FH ch. 15): after the collapse only two eleven-beacon systems remain —
Yele System (Yele League capital) and Anchor System (Phene Empire). See Yele
System in systems.md.
~~Is "Destiny" the Phene capital?~~¶
Tier: resolved
Resolved (FH ch. 60): No. Destiny is "the heart of the old queendom of Mishirru,
now the seat of a provincial government under the empire" — a provincial seat, not the
imperial capital. The Phene capital is Anchor (one of the Triple A — Anchor, Auger,
Axiom; seat of the Rider Council). See polities.md and Anchor System in
systems.md. (This also corrects an earlier note that mis-cited the "heart
of" line to ch. 70 and read it as "heart of the empire.") Note: "heart of Mishirru" means
Destiny is the cultural/political capital of the old queendom — not a claim about
its position at the centre of the map (the books keep physical geography vague).
~~Is Mishirru still an independent queendom, or a Phene province?~~¶
Tier: resolved
Resolved (FH ch. 71, 78): a Phene province. The Phene seized its Great Mother Queen
~143 Destiny-years ago and hold her at Anchor; Mishirru Province now spans fourteen
systems, seat at Destiny. See polities.md and history.md.
~~Does Destiny connect by a direct beacon to the Triple A (Axiom/Auger/Anchor)?~~¶
Tier: resolved
Resolved — no (FH ch. 78, 86). The proposed "Destiny→Axiom beacon" is a misreading of
FH ch. 86, which groups Karnos/Destiny/Auger/Axiom only as seven-beacon systems by class,
not by connection. Mishirru reaches the Phene heartland via two multi-hop beacon paths
through Sena and Aila (border systems Jorsha/Alternity); Axiom is several hops deep
in the Phene core. See the Mishirru↔Phene route in systems.md.
~~How many of Yele System's eleven beacons are functional?~~¶
Tier: resolved
Resolved (FH ch. 90): eight functional, three dead — counted on-page by Persephone
inside Yele System, and explicitly "the same number of dead beacons" as Anchor (also 3 of
11). This confirms the figure the notes carried; the Yele System topology now records
beacons_functional: 8.
~~Are Nalanda and Sankore directly linked to each other (vs. only via Yele)?~~¶
Tier: resolved
Resolved — no (inference, strong; FH ch. 15, 60, 65). Three converging passages
establish that each is reached only via Yele Prime: (1) Zàofù's fleet split at Yele
to send the Sixth to Nalanda and the Ninth to Sankore (FH ch. 65 — a direct link would
make the split-at-Yele unnecessary); (2) Meli's knnu reaches "either of two Yele League
systems" (FH ch. 65, plural construction, not a chain); (3) the general "members must
travel through Yele to get to the other League systems" (FH ch. 15). See the Nalanda &
Sankore entry in systems.md. The Trinity Meli↔Kumbala equivalent
(unwitnessed direct beacon) remains open above.
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