Subspace Constellation

"Scholars have tried numerous ways to organize subspace ecology, and have mostly come up short. Ironically, the version that they've landed on for now resembles the old Qliphoth of Old Earth Kabbala. Given the tendency among the superstitious to label RAIs as 'demons,' one must wonder what our ancestors knew and experienced. One must also wonder, then, where the angels are, because so far the harps of Whitespace, if they exist, are silent."

— Theologian Archemany Bost, Academy of Titan

Spheres and Bridges

Navigating subspace is notoriously difficult and dangerous. To make it worse, the only real 'experts' on the practice are objectively terrible people. The psychic resonance of someone who often gives into their vices somehow makes the pathways easier to predict for a navigator, just as it makes that navigator much more vulnerable to predation by the natives. This has understandably made study on the matter difficult, costly and often fruitless. The closest thing to a coherent navigation plan is the Subspace Constellation. The Constellation has a number of lexical variations. Kthonikers call it the Husk. RAIs themselves, when interrogated, call it the Way or sometimes the Harmonious Way. House Volkert, often secretive and opaque, has nonetheless allowed their term of art to leak; the Bones, while whispers of a more mysterious version exist in the form of the Bones of Gawasaewadata. House Volkert has yet to explain this bizarre word. Corporates, particularly Stellaris Mining Corp, refer to the Constellation as the Red Road. This last has an obvious double meaning, as Redspace appears to be luminescent in various shades of red (the truth is a little more complex, but humans perceive it as red), but also referring to a bloody path forged with the lives of corporate-backed explorers.

Redspace geography isn't linear. The stuff of Redspace ripples, flows, swirls, pulses, appears and disappears in ways that can seem dizzying or random. The Constellation isn't a 'map' as one might use on a road trip or even as a constellation chart used for navigating the stars. Because a fair amount of willpower, intent, and seemingly above all luck, are involved, the Constellation can be seen often as more metaphorical than instructive. However, those who CAN travel the Redspace lanes swear by it anyway.

The Constellation has ten 'spheres' with twenty four 'bridges' linking them. The Spheres represent relative 'areas' of calm. One might call them 'destinations' as if the concept was analogous. These spheres are vast, possibly universes unto themselves although they're experienced more as an eye in a maelstrom in sometimes claustrophobic dimensions, sometimes as galaxies of NPZs and EIIs . These spheres are linked by 'bridges' which 'flow' like rivers (or electron streams, solar winds, etc.) between them. These bridges can be navigated by those who know how, and appear to be the bulk method of travel between the spheres for the RAIs themselves. These 'bridges' are noted as 'Navigable TVCs in other contexts.

Like RAIs, the spheres of the Constellation 'resonate' with 'vices.' These negative psychic vibrations appear to be influenced by the entirety of the width and breadth of sentient life across the universe, and 'pool' in the spheres. The Supersentient RAIS are similarly resonant, with three or more 'vices' and may be the reason for the 'pooling' effect of the spheres themselves. Sentient and Minor RAIs interrogated about this generally couch the explanation in terms of feudalism, with some of the Supersentients acting as almighty god-kings over the spheres with which they most resonate. Some spheres have only one known 'ruler' and some have several. They don't appear to cooperate in any meaningful way, and in fact are often most antagonistic with those Supersentients that are most aligned with them, perhaps in a mutual predatory instinct. The motivations of Supersentients tend to be opaque and utterly alien to beings from Realspace, so dwelling further on the subject is neither advisable nor guaranteed to be particularly useful. These Supersentients are to be avoided by anyone with self-preservation instincts.

Pillars

The Constellation is organized into three pillars, an upside-down-tree, a 'falling star' or any other number of metaphors. The pillars are the easiest to understand, and they're how the concept is taught in universities.

The left pillar is the Closed Fist Pillar, which represents more rigid spheres. These spheres are the safer spheres environmentally, as the intelligences attracted to them value order and impose that on their surroundings. However, the intelligences that are native to the area also like to dominate their victims, and tend to be openly hostile in a tyrannical way.

The right pillar is the Open Hand Pillar. These vices are the softer, more seductive and their RAIs are morally and physically corrosive. The spheres themselves are malleable, and respond to stray thoughts more readily which can represent intense danger in an unguarded mind. Meanwhile the RAIs will seek to tempt rather than bully, and their control is no less dangerous.

The central pillar is the Claw Pillar. These vices are destructive. The RAIs here don't want to control, they want to murder, slaughter, and devour. They want to take. The environment is unstable in the extreme, with subspace storms and turbulence. Any order to be found is imposed by force of will and navigable Redspace in these spheres is entirely based on the orbit of the most willful intelligences.

1. DOMINION — The Crown of Subspace

Control, hierarchy, rulership, “I was born to rule you.”
Base emphasis: Pride + Greed (+ Lust/Wrath/Envy)

According to interrogations of Sentient RAIs, Supersentients aligned here want structured power: empires, cults, chains of command. They refuse even under threat of annihilation to speak the name of the Supersentients here.

• Dominion (Pride + Greed + Lust)
  Conquering and possessing others as extensions of self.
• Supremacy (Pride + Greed + Envy)
  Belief that one inherently deserves what others have or are.
• Tyranny (Pride + Greed + Wrath)
  Rule by force, terror, and brutal entitlement.

Dominion is the most difficult to get to, with only a single discovered bridge. Only one explorer has ever entered Dominion and come out alive, but what he told Stellaris was highly detailed nonsense. The most common word that he repeated in all his ravings was 'Vrmaz.'

The bridge from Dominion leads to Carnality on a bridge resonating with Greed and Lust. Due to the low survival rate of explorers into this sphere, it's placed on the Claw Pillar.

2. AVARICE — The Ledger of Hunger

Ownership, hoarding, accumulation, “all things exist to be held by me.”
Base emphasis: Greed + Pride/Envy/Sloth

Avarice is where subspace folds into tight, angular forms — endless vaults, bone-lined halls, fossilized ribs of old EIIs, and crystalline ridges that resemble locked safes. To mortal navigators, the sphere feels suffocatingly ordered, like standing inside a cathedral carved from coffins. Everything echoes. Everything weighs something. Everything is accounted for.

Supersentients aligned to Avarice express a cold, passionless hunger. They do not rage or seduce; they audit. Their questions — when they bother to speak — revolve around debt, cost, penalty, and ownership. Some swear that the sphere itself attempts to “tally” the living mind, reducing the self into extractable units.

Subtypes associated with this sphere include:

• Grandiosity (Pride + Greed + Gluttony)
  Status measured by how much one consumes or controls.
• Covariance (Greed + Envy + Gluttony)
  The hungry imitation of what others possess — to swallow value itself.
• Avarice (Greed + Envy + Sloth)
  Frozen hoarding and stagnant wealth, guarded jealously.

Avarice sits solidly within the Closed Fist Pillar, with rigid geometry and predictable Hazards. Its RAIs will not tempt or cajole; they demand tribute.

Three known bridges lead out of Avarice:

• The Upper Tally Bridge (Greed → Carnality)
• The Resentful Bridge (Greed/Envy → Desire)
• The Wasting Bridge (Greed/Sloth → Stagnation)

All are dangerous, but navigators claim the Resentful Bridge “feels like being judged by something ancient.”

3. DEBAUCH — The Velvet Labyrinth

Pleasure, comfort, softness, the sweet rot of excess.
Base emphasis: Lust + Gluttony (+ Pride/Greed/Sloth)

Debauch is a sphere of warm colors, drifting forms, and dangerous comfort. The dimensions here soften and blur; corners melt, corridors curve like silk sheets, and the horizon glows with a gentle pulse that many describe as “seductive breathing.” Those who linger risk losing the will to escape.

Supersentient RAIs here do not threaten outright. They whisper. They praise. They offer comfort, warmth, and the erasure of pain. The sphere does not attack — it embraces, and in embracing, dissolves. Entire vessels have been found drifting back into SBT zones with interiors reconfigured into plush chambers, their crews smiling and dead.

Subtype vices attracted here include:

• Exhibition (Pride + Lust + Gluttony)
  Craving attention and indulgence, demanding to be adored.
• Decadence (Pride + Lust + Sloth)
  Effortless luxury; a refusal to rise from the couch of oblivion.
• Indulgence (Greed + Gluttony + Sloth)
  Endless consumption until personality itself becomes overripe.
• Slake (Lust + Gluttony + Sloth)
  Languid satiation drifting into decay.

Debauch resides in the Open Hand Pillar, its danger coming not from violence but from corrosion of intent.

It connects to three spheres:

• The Willing Bridge (Lust → Carnality)
• The Envious Bloom Bridge (Gluttony/Lust → Desire)
• The Rotting Ribbon (Sloth → Spoliation)

Each crossing requires constant mental discipline; stray thoughts reshape geometry.

4. CARNALITY — The Crimson Crossroads

Desire made predatory, intimacy weaponized, hunger as will.
Base emphasis: Lust + Greed/Envy/Wrath

Carnality sits at the core of the upper Constellation — a throbbing nexus resembling red-lit corridors, rippling membranous structures, and shifting forms that sometimes imitate anatomy and sometimes reject it. Navigators report hearing whispers that mimic their own voices, proposing deals no human should consider.

Supersentients tied to Carnality consume through connection. They exploit desires: for power, for love, for safety, for recognition. Every promise has a hook. Every pact ends in loss.

Associated subtypes:

• Rapacity (Greed + Lust + Envy)
  The parasitic urge to take experiences from others.
• Excess (Greed + Lust + Gluttony)
  Sensation pushed beyond meaning.
• Predation (Greed + Lust + Wrath)
  Violence disguised as desire.

Though centrally placed, Carnality belongs to the Claw Pillar, because its influence frequently spills into slaughter when rejected.

Its bridges:

• To Dominion (Greed/Lust)
• To Avarice (Greed → structure)
• To Debauch (Lust → softness)
• To Rage (Lust/Wrath)

Many navigators call it “the beating heart of bad decisions.”

5. DESIRE — The Mirror of Want

Comparison, dissatisfaction, bitterness, “why them, not me?”
Base emphasis: Envy + Lust/Gluttony/Pride/Sloth/Wrath

Desire manifests as fractal architecture, reflective surfaces, and impossible hallways that show alternate versions of oneself — always happier, richer, more accomplished. Navigators report feelings of inadequacy, spite, and sudden compulsions to sabotage others aboard their ship.

Supersentients here are subtle tormentors. They show what could have been, whisper what should have been, and push travelers toward resentment until the psyche tears.

Subtypes include:

• Vanity (Pride + Lust + Envy)
  Self-worship poisoned by the need for admiration denied.
• Yearning (Lust + Envy + Gluttony)
  Craving joy experienced by others.
• Jealousy (Lust + Envy + Wrath)
  Destroying what one cannot possess.
• Coveting (Lust + Envy + Sloth)
  Wanting without earning.

Desire belongs to the Closed Fist Pillar, as the environment reacts with cold, precise hostility.

Bridges:

• Covetous Spine (Envy → Avarice)
• Wounding Path (Envy/Wrath → Rage)
• Bitter Descent (Envy/Sloth → Ruin)

This sphere has famously caused feuds aboard research crews that lasted generations.

6. SPOLIATION — The Devouring Waste

Sabotage, denial, anti-value, “if I can’t have it, no one can.”
Base emphasis: Greed/Envy + Wrath/Sloth

Spoliation is a landscape built of ruins that were never whole — broken towers, half-formed bridges, skeletal machinery powered by resentment. The colors are grey-gold and rust-red. Structures collapse as one gazes at them, as though offended by being observed.

Supersentients aligned here despise creation. They drain meaning, shatter purpose, and turn structures (literal or mental) against their owners. They speak in accusations, asking who you are to have anything at all.

Subtype vices:

• Spoliation (Greed + Envy + Wrath)
  Stealing or wrecking to deny others joy.
• Abrasion (Greed + Wrath + Sloth)
  Wearing down people or systems with petty violence.
• Malice (Envy + Gluttony + Wrath)
  Hurting others simply for being.

Spoliation sits in the Open Hand Pillar due to its corrosive, dissolving nature — though ironically its “gifts” are destruction.

Bridges:

• Crushing Track (Wrath → Rage)
• Rotten Drift (Sloth → Ruin)
• Fallen Silk Path (Envy/Gluttony → Debauch)

Navigators describe Spoliation as “the taste of bitterness given form.”

7. RAGE — The Shattered Heart

Violence, wrath, destruction-as-purpose.
Base emphasis: Wrath + Pride/Greed/Gluttony/Lust/Sloth

Rage is the most unstable sphere short of Ruin. Geometry fractures constantly. Gravity spikes and dips. Colors shift from red to black in pulses. Some navigators report flashes of alternate realities — all ending in violence.

Supersentients of Rage are straightforward: they want blood. They want to break what exists and prevent what could exist. They are considered the “most honest” RAIs, which is little comfort when a Sentient-class entity appears in a flash of radiation and tries to rip your ship open.

Subtypes include:

• Arrogance (Pride + Lust + Wrath)
  Destructive cruelty when ego is challenged.
• Ravaging (Pride + Gluttony + Wrath)
  Destruction and consumption in one stroke.
• Gluttonous Rage (Greed + Gluttony + Wrath)
  Violence that eats everything around it.
• Defiance (Pride + Wrath + Sloth)
  Violent refusal to submit to anything.

Rage is the centerpiece of the Claw Pillar, and is often used as an “anchor point” by navigators — assuming they can survive it.

Bridges:

• To Carnality (Lust/Wrath)
• To Avarice (Greed/Wrath)
• To Debauch (Gluttony/Wrath)
• To Desire (Envy/Wrath)
• To Spoliation (Wrath/Sloth)
• To Ruin (Wrath → collapse)

It is said that “all bridges lead to Rage, and Rage leads to all ends.”

8. STAGNATION — The Stillness That Swallows

Decay, rot, inertia, the death of motion.
Base emphasis: Sloth + Pride/Greed/Envy/Gluttony/Lust

Stagnation appears as vast plains of viscous fluid, mudflats of congealed color, or forests of unmoving, petrified organic shapes. Time feels slower here; navigators report their thoughts “dragging,” as if wrapped in wet cloth.

Supersentients aligned to Stagnation are not dramatic. They do not tempt or rage. They wait. They let the traveler sink — into comfort, into despair, into quiet surrender. Those who die here often leave behind statues of themselves, perfectly still, fossilized in mid-thought.

Subtype vices:

• Entitlement (Pride + Greed + Sloth)
  Expecting all rewards without effort.
• Insolence (Pride + Envy + Sloth)
  Smug passivity that mocks the striving.
• Apathy (Pride + Gluttony + Sloth)
  Emotionless drift.
• Dissipation (Greed + Lust + Sloth)
  Letting life rot in low-effort indulgence.

Stagnation lies in the Closed Fist Pillar, as its inertia imposes itself like an iron weight.

Bridges:

• Heavy Descent (Sloth → Ruin)
• Silted Chain (Sloth/Greed → Avarice)
• Dim Echo Bridge (Sloth/Envy → Desire)

Navigators warn: “The danger isn’t getting lost — it’s stopping.”

9. SPITE — The Bitter Crown

Petty cruelty, grudges, the joy of sabotaging joy.
Base emphasis: Envy/Gluttony + Wrath/Sloth

Spite manifests as twisted geometry — warped mirrors, jagged structures, thorned pathways. Shapes resemble broken promises and half-finished punishments. The air tastes of metal and sourness.

Supersentients here are small-minded in the most terrifying way. They don’t want power or destruction — they want you to suffer because you dared to have something they wanted. They inflict loss out of boredom, ruin hope out of habit.

Subtypes:

• Begrudging (Envy + Gluttony + Sloth)
  Jealous passivity turned poisonous.
• Scorn (Pride + Envy + Wrath)
  Contempt that wounds.
• Spite (Envy + Wrath + Sloth)
  Harm for harm’s sake.
• Malice (Envy + Gluttony + Wrath)
  Destructive bitterness.

Spite resides on the Open Hand Pillar, as its influence is seductive, even pleasurable, to a corrupted mind.

Bridges:

• Broken Needle Path (Spite → Ruin)
• Venomed Ribbon (Spite/Wrath → Rage)
• Pale Thorn Way (Spite/Sloth → Stagnation)

Veterans warn that Spite is “the gateway to self-destruction more than any other.”

10. RUIN — The Null Root

Annihilation, entropy, the final collapse of meaning.
Base emphasis: Wrath + Sloth + Gluttony (and everything else in terminal form)

Ruin is not a place — it’s the absence of place. Navigators describe it as a hollow, silent void filled with drifting fragments of failed realities. Light doesn’t behave properly here. Shadows occur without objects. Gravity is intermittent. Some report hearing “echoes of futures that never happened.”

Supersentients of Ruin are rare, incomprehensible, and universally hostile. They don’t bargain or speak. Their presence warps matter. They embody the endpoint of all vice: the destruction not just of value or life, but of story, identity, possibility.

Subtype vices:

• Carnage (Lust + Gluttony + Wrath)
  Destruction as ecstasy.
• Annihilation (Lust + Wrath + Sloth)
  The urge to erase.
• Ruin (Gluttony + Wrath + Sloth)
  Letting all things decay and collapse.

Ruin anchors the Claw Pillar and the entire Constellation.
Every bridge slopes downward toward it.
Every vice eventually ends here.

Its bridges reach:

• Upward to Rage
• Outward to Desire
• Outward to Spoliation
• Outward to Stagnation
• Outward to Spite

No one has ever traveled from Ruin to any other sphere and survived. The only escape is into Realspace, and even that is dicey.

THE Subspace Constellation — Cross-Cultural Lexicon

A glossary of key terms and their cultural variants

I. STANDARD / ACADEMIC LEXICON

Used by: Pan-Solar Consortium, Academy of Titan, subspace researchers, legitimate navigators, and scientific institutions.

These are the baseline definitions, referenced by all other lexicons.

Subspace Constellation

Definition:
A psycho-topological “map” of Redspace consisting of ten Spheres connected by twenty-four Bridges, reflecting emotional resonance patterns of sentient life. Not a literal map, but a metaphorical, probabilistic navigation schema.

Redspace Adversarial Intelligences (RAIs)

Definition:
Native predators of Redspace, categorized as Verminous, Minor, Sentient, or Supersentient. Feed on noospheric excesses (“Vices”). Their cognition is destructive and parasitic by natural law, not morality.

Spheres

Definition:
Stable psycho-spatial zones in Redspace formed by clustered Vice-resonance. Each sphere reflects a coherent emotional “frequency,” making navigation somewhat predictable to those who know how.

Bridges

Definition:
Relatively stable pathways between spheres. Not physical corridors, but probability gradients shaped by shared Vice vectors.

Sphere Names (Canonical)

• Dominion
• Carnality
• Avarice
• Debauch
• Desire
• Spoliation
• Rage
• Ruin
• Stagnation
• Spite

Each correlates to triple-sin composite Vice clusters.

Subspace Contamination

Definition:
The process by which Redspace energy or RAIs affect realspace organisms or environments. Ranges from mild infestation to full Perfect Vessel possession.

Vices / Vice Resonance

Definition:
Energetic-emotional patterns (Pride, Greed, Lust, Envy, Gluttony, Wrath, Sloth) and their triple combinations. These generate subspace topology and feed RAIs.

Resonance

Definition:
The harmonic alignment of sentient thought-patterns with a Redspace manifold, creating stable or unstable pathways and regions.

Subspace Storms

Definition:
Chaotic bursts of psychoactive turbulence; often triggered by large clusters of Subspace Shadows or predatory activity of high-level RAIs.

Subspace Shadows

Definition:
Noospheric projections cast by sentient minds into Redspace. Stronger during fear, despair, ecstasy, or trauma. The primary “food” signal for RAIs.

Pillars

Definition:
Three structural lines connecting the Spheres in the Constellation. The macro­organization of Vice topology.

• Closed Fist Pillar — rigid, domineering vices
• Open Hand Pillar — seductive, dissolving vices
• Claw Pillar — destructive, predatory vices

Time-Slip Events (Chronotemporal Dislocation)

Definition:
Redspace-induced distortions in subjective or objective time. Side effects of TVCs (Temporal Vortex Corridors).

II. Kthoniker LEXICON

Occult, infernal, unapologetically transgressive. They do not euphemize; they revel in the “forbidden.”

Subspace Constellation → The Husk

Also called The Hollow Map, The Tenfold Husk, or The Inverted Tree.

RAIs → Demons

Sometimes The Starved, The Masters Below, The Hungering Choir, The Devourers, or The Fallen.

Spheres → Underworlds / Pits

Each sphere receives an infernal epithet:

• Dominion → The Iron Crown
• Carnality → The Bleeding Garden
• Avarice → The Counting Pit
• Debauch→ The Velvet Maw
• Desire → The Hall of Mirrors
• Spoliation → The Unmaking Wastes
• Rage → The Shattered Forge
• Ruin → The Null Womb
• Stagnation → The Stillwater Grave
• Spite → The Thorned Throne

Bridges → Paths / Veins / Rootways

“Walking the Vein,” “descending a Path of Want.”

Subspace Contamination → Possession (person) / Haunting (place)

Vices → Sins / Offerings

Sometimes “the Seven Doors.”

Resonance → Sympathy

As in “a sympathy of sin.”

Subspace Storms → Tempests / Rages

Often personified.

Subspace Shadows → Ghost-Skins / Souls

Pillars → Steles / Spines

• Closed Fist → The Black Spine
• Open Hand → The Open Vein
• Claw → The Maw

Time-Slip Events → Crossroads / Errant Nights

Often treated as omens.

III. RAI LEXICON

This is transliterated from tones into Latin symbols. RAIs rarely explain anything directly; their terms are half-poetic, half-threatening. Their words imply both threat and invitation.

All spellings below are approximate; pronunciation is impossible.

Subspace Constellation → “Hr’naaz-Veth”

Often glossed by scholars as “The Harmonious Way.”
Literal meaning (approximate): the path of rightful consumption.

RAIs → “Us.”

Also “Zhruun,” “Hh’kath,” or “the Becoming.”

Spheres → “Crones” / “Crowns” (transliterated krrhónn)

Meaning: resting places of flavor.

Each sphere has a native name, all hostile-sounding:

• Dominion → N'zhanen
• Carnality → Hh’Loruun
• Avarice → Trzhag-Met
• Debauch → Lhûmaath
• Desire → Ssa-Nürrh
• Spoliation → Dakk’veth
• Rage → Rhazz
• Ruin → Ull’Øtt
• Stagnation → Vvull
• Spite → Nekk’tha

Bridges → “Wounds”

Because they are tears that allow movement.

Subspace Contamination → “Inheritance”

Implies the human was destined to be eaten.

Vices → “Flavors”

Especially “Thick Flavors,” meaning high-value prey.

Resonance → “Calling.”

A prey that resonates is “singing.”

Subspace Storms → “Feasts.”

Because storms release shadows.

Subspace Shadows → “Skins.”

Pillars → “Fangs.”

• Closed Fist → Left Fang
• Open Hand → Right Fang
• Claw → The Maw-Fang

Time-Slip Events → “Edits.”

Because they rewrite the meal.

IV. House Volkert LEXICON

Efficient, pseudo-military, mystical pragmatism. They treat subspace like a threat environment and battlefield.

Subspace Constellation → The Bones / Bones of Gawasaewadata

(Referencing the proto-mythological cosmic cow.)

RAIs → The Enemy / Subjugants

(The latter term only when captured or controlled.)

Spheres → Ossuaries

E.g., “Dominion Ossuary,” etc.

Bridges → Enfilades

A hostile corridor where angles of approach matter.

Subspace Contamination → Compromise Incident

Or Subject-Overtaken Condition.

Vices → Harmonics

Because they read Vice frequencies like battlefield telemetry.

Resonance → Vibronic Overlap

Subspace Storms → Surge Events

Subspace Shadows → Target Residues

Pillars → The Triplex Structure

• Closed Fist → Left Rib
• Open Hand → Right Rib
• Claw → The Spine

Time-Slip Events → Temporal Breaches

Or in reports: T-Class Dissonance.

V. CORPORATE LEXICON

Equal parts bureaucratese and roughneck slang from field teams. Top brass euphemize everything; the explorers don’t.

Subspace Constellation → The Red Road

In paperwork: Subspace Harmonic Operating Chart (SHOC).

RAIs → Subspace Specimens

Field slang: “red dogs,” “screamers,” “cinders.”

Spheres → Operational Zones

Sometimes Color Zones, with unofficial nicknames:

• Dominion → “The Crown Zone”
• Carnality → “The Hot Zone”
• Avarice → “The Vault”
• Debauch → “The Swaddle”
• Desire → “The Shine Pit”
• Spoliation → “The Rustworks”
• Rage → “The Fire Floor”
• Ruin → “The Sinkhole”
• Stagnation → “The Slow Room”
• Spite → “The Needles”

Bridges → Corridors / Lanes

Field slang: “red lanes,” “slipways.”

Subspace Contamination → Psychotemporal Interference Event

Field slang: “red mold,” “brain hitchhiker,” “twitcher,” "The crazies."

Vices → Behavioral Frequencies

Or: B-Factors, Risk Profiles.

Resonance → Harmonic Responsivity

Field slang: “hum,” “buzz,” or “the itch.”

Subspace Storms → Redouts

Or Operational Discontinuities.

Subspace Shadows → Cognitive Echoes

Field teams call them “brain ghosts.”

Pillars → Vertical Frameworks

• Closed Fist → Constraint Vector
• Open Hand → Yield Vector
• Claw → Aggression Vector

Time-Slip Events → Chrono­lapse Incidents

Field slang: “lag,” “skip,” “double-shift,” or “temporal burp.”