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A field archive of the Fold: people, allegiances, equipment and the routes between them. Choose a subject, or search the full text of the collection. Story and ending entries contain spoilers.
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Silent Coin
Silent Coin is one of 20+ items you can equip or carry in CONTRABAND. As a rare, it occupies a specific role in your ship's loadou…
2 min · Read article ↗Items & equipmentVex Prism
Vex Prism is one of 20+ items you can equip or carry in CONTRABAND. As a artifact, it occupies a specific role in your ship's load…
2 min · Read article ↗Items & equipmentGuardian Sigil
Guardian Sigil is one of 20+ items you can equip or carry in CONTRABAND. As a rare, it occupies a specific role in your ship's loa…
2 min · Read article ↗Stories & loreAsterion Claim
The asteroid you turn into a base was claimed by 41 pilots before you. None of them finished the build.…
1 min · Read article ↗Stories & loreBranch Ledger
A record of every abandoned branch you created by revisiting. Each entry shows the fork point and what you carried forward.…
1 min · Read article ↗Stories & loreCartel Trade Routes
A web of black-market lanes spanning all six regions. The Cartel does not officially exist; everyone deals with them anyway.…
1 min · Read article ↗Stories & loreEcho Language
A way of speaking used by Guardians and certain crew that allows two listeners to hear different meanings from the same sentence.…
1 min · Read article ↗Stories & loreFirst Rift War
A conflict from generations ago that left the Drossfield as a graveyard. The first time the Rift was nearly opened.…
1 min · Read article ↗Stories & loreRift Phantom
The Chapter 4 final encounter. Not really an enemy in the conventional sense — more like a manifestation of the Rift trying to anc…
1 min · Read article ↗Stories & loreRift Resonator Lore
The endgame device. The lore explanation: it does not open the Rift so much as listen to it loudly enough to make it answer.…
1 min · Read article ↗Stories & loreHaven Treaty
The agreement that made Haven a neutral port. Signed by representatives from every faction that mattered at the time.…
1 min · Read article ↗Stories & loreMemory Wells
Dockable stations in the Silent Rift that store player save data in-universe. Visiting one in canon retrieves a previous run.…
1 min · Read article ↗Stories & loreOracle Crystal
A unique item that lets you carry a state flag across New Game+. Players who complete the game once and start over with the crysta…
1 min · Read article ↗Stories & lorePilot Eighteen
You are the eighteenth pilot to face this choice. Seventeen came before you. Sixteen took the offered power. One refused.…
1 min · Read article ↗Stories & loreRevisit Mechanic
The signature gameplay system. You can return to any past decision and choose differently. The previous version becomes a ghost br…
1 min · Read article ↗Stories & loreRift branches
The canonical narrative thread that holds the multiverse together. Guardians protect it. The Rift tries to break it. Every player …
1 min · Read article ↗Stories & loreBlack Fleet Origin
The Black Fleet are former Verge defense forces who refused to disband after the first Rift war ended ambiguously.…
1 min · Read article ↗Stories & loreSecond Rift War
The conflict you are entering. The Rift is weakening again, and pilot-eighteen is the variable.…
1 min · Read article ↗Stories & loreSeventeen Branches
Vex exists across seventeen of them. The number corresponds to the chambers of the Guardian machine. There is a meaningful answer …
1 min · Read article ↗Stories & loreSilent Frequency
A radio band only audible inside the Silent Rift. It carries conversations that have not happened yet.…
1 min · Read article ↗Stories & loreThe Starforge Artifact
The object at the center of the multiverse. It is also a ship. It is also, possibly, a person. The game does not commit to one ans…
1 min · Read article ↗Stories & loreThe Seventh Refusal
Pilot Seven refused. That is why the Guardians still exist. Their refusal is a load-bearing part of the current branch.…
1 min · Read article ↗Stories & loreVerge Rebellion
A short-lived uprising in the Verge that the Guardians quietly suppressed. References to it appear in old logs.…
1 min · Read article ↗Stories & loreVex Prism
A pocket-sized object showing your reflection from seventeen different angles. The physical representation of multiverse branching…
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