The ocean world has opened its Sunward Chain to visitors for the first time: 2,000 permits a year, drawn by ballot. How to apply, and what the islanders ask in return.
Tessaly's orange moon hides its stars and the giant overhead. Fewer than thirty people a year go down to Amber Camp: here is what they do there, and how to join them.
Green curtains, red fringes and seven weeks late in Calder's year: how to watch the aurora from a night flight out of Port Kestrel, or looking down from Halcyon's Long Window.
At Veyra's south pole, ice sprays into space from long fractures called the Tiger Lines. A guided walk across the geyser field, the rhythm of the plumes and why you want to see them backlit.
Two days from Halcyon, Calder's airless moon offers walkers a black sky at noon, the soft grey hills of the Taurin Valley and boot prints that will outlast them. Three days on foot from Camp Ardent.
