Overview
The Lattice is the route intelligence that coordinates safe passage between the twelve rings of the Aurora Circuit. It began as traffic infrastructure and gradually became a civic institution: part navigator, part witness, part emergency court.
Known Functions
- Calculates low-risk routes through debris, radiation weather, and ring traffic.
- Records public annotations attached to disputed routes.
- Grants priority passage during famine, evacuation, or medical emergency.
- Refuses routes when a ship, passenger, or destination violates old quarantine law.
Current Mystery
The Lattice has started issuing route requests without registered ships. These requests may point to hidden vessels, archived disasters, or decisions the rings made and later forgot.
Contributor Prompts
- Write a story from the perspective of a captain whose route is denied.
- Add a wiki entry for one of the twelve rings.
- Create a nested city or harbor project under Aurora Circuit.