✦ Fian Ilchruinne

Fian Ilchruinne is hard science fiction with a hopeful heart. Real physics holds where people live, and the one invented thing is the shape of reality above it. Two clocks on one station wall disagree by forty seconds, and both of them are right. Every recalibration holds for about two days; then the forty seconds come back. The record follows the Star Rangers ordered to measure the drift, guard the public record, and decide what truth still survives across the Five Layers, the Grand Ensemble Multiverse, and multiple points of view.

Begin Reading Newest: What a Mind Is Carried By

Seasons & Episodes

Start with the chapters, then switch viewpoints to see how one canon event is remembered, defended, or denied.

Characters

Meet the officers, constructs, and beings—human and otherwise—whose loyalties keep the frontier intact—or break it.

Timeline

Read the fixed sequence of events first. Then trace how later testimony argues over what those events mean.

Lore

Ask the record what a mind is made of and it will ask what you are pointing at.

Glossary

Fix the terms before the arguments begin: institutions, phenomena, titles, and names from across the record.

Codex

Open the raw paperwork—logs, directives, and archive notes—where memory and authority collide line by line.

Licence

The text and world-building content of Fian Ilchruinne is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. You are free to share this material — copy and redistribute it in any medium or format — for non-commercial purposes only, provided you give appropriate credit to Dermot R. Cochran, indicate if any changes were made, and do not distribute adapted or derivative versions of the work — with one standing exception: non-commercial fan works (fan fiction, fan art, and fan fiction clones of this site) are explicitly welcome. See the About page and the repository's CONTENT-LICENSE.md for the details and conditions.

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The full text of the licence is on its own page: Licence.