Seasons & Episodes
Begin with the record: one history, many witnesses. Read a chapter in any available character's point of view, then switch inside the chapter to see how duty, fear, and memory reshape the same event.
The story's present is 2826 UCSD: Threshold Station has carried an unresolved instrument discrepancy for eleven years, while the Marsh Causeway has endured three years of independent boundary monitoring. The earliest thread opens more than a century before that, in 2712 UCSD, with the Founding Era.
Seasons are grouped below by storyline thread — each thread is an independent narrative, not a strict release order. See the Threads page for what each one covers. First visit? The reading plan lays out a guided path.
Founding Era
The years that made the Star Rangers both necessary and possible, under the last stretch of Military Space Command rule - before the Charter, and before Threshold Station's drift had a name.
- S00E01C01 Supplementary MaterialEden Space Habitat — Chief Scientist's Office and Docking Ring
- S00E01C02 Beyond MSC LiabilityEden Space Habitat — Chief Scientist's Office and Docking Ring
- S00E02C01 Unauthorised, ThereforeSolar Command, Mars — MSC Casualty Correspondence Office
- S00E02C02 The Volunteered WordSolar Command, Mars — Outer Stations Consolidation Hearing Chamber
- S00E03C01 What They Were Forbidden to BecomeSolar Command, Mars — Charter Ratification Chamber
- S00E03C02 No Longer SupplementarySolar Command, Mars — Founders' Reception
Tissadelle Shepherd's Arc
The chronological spine of the published series - Cadet to Principal to Line Captain to the Last Stand, and what the Last Stand leaves behind - carried across Seasons 1, 3, 5, 6, and 7. Seasons 2 and 4 carry the storylines that don't run through her: Undercover Pets and Orbital Five-O.
Season 1
- S01E00C00 Below the BellsDún Rí, Terrace Garden — Road to the Old River Abbey
- S01E00C01 The Garden GateDún Rí, Terrace Garden
- S01E00C02 What the Stones ConfirmedDún Rí, Household Sanctum
- S01E00C03 Carraig BánCarraig Bán, an unnamed tidal island
- S01E00C04 A Person's NameAn unnamed long-voyage ship, deep transit — then Eden Space Habitat
- S01E00C05 Survives CorrectionThe first party's shelter on the membrane later registered as Counterpane — then the Survey Corps Standards Office's calibration floor, Earth
- S01E01C01 Arrival at the Threshold StationThreshold Station, Dock Seven
- S01E01C02 The Forty-Second DiscrepancyThreshold Station, Survey Office
- S01E01C03 The Character of the LightSceir Light, on the shore below Threshold Station
- S01E02C01 The Broken CausewayMarsh Causeway, Sub-station Outpost
- S01E02C02 The Grove at the Fault LineMarsh Causeway, Dryadic Grove
- S01E02C03 Harmonic DebriefThreshold Station, Boundary Operations Room
- S01E02C04 Sightline WindowThreshold Station, Transit Ring
- S01E02C05 The Harmonic PriceThreshold Station, Clinical Debrief Room
- S01E03C01 The Right QuestionMarsh Causeway, Sub-station Outpost
- S01E03C02 The Root and the Rest of ItMarsh Causeway, Dryadic Grove
- S01E03C03 The One He Did Not NameMarsh Causeway, Sub-station Outpost
- S01E03C04 The Order of EvacuationPelagos Minor, Equatorial Evacuation Basin
Season 3
- S03E01C01 Filed Under NoiseHalyx Relay Station, Halyx System — Survey Corps liaison archive
- S03E01C02 Independent VerificationHalyx Relay Station, Halyx System — Survey Corps Review Chamber
- S03E01C03 What Meridian AskedHalyx Relay Station, Halyx System — Survey Corps liaison archive; a sealed consultation channel to the Long Shelf reef-city
- S03E02C01 Aware of WeatherThreshold Station, Boundary Operations Room
- S03E02C02 Honest ClocksThe calibration shelter on the surveyed membrane of Counterpane
Season 5
- S05E00C01 Not AskedA fold-approach post on the outward frontier, the record does not name which — Shepherd's first command — and Wender's line office
- S05E01C01 Refusal to CertifyHalyx Relay Station, Halyx System — Outer-Ring Transit Corridor
- S05E02C01 What the Hill KeepsTír na nÓg, Boirinn Uplands — the Shepherd holding, then the Union shuttle gate
- S05E02C02 A Fraction of a SecondThreshold Station, Boundary Survey Archive
- S05E02C03 What Came Off the ShipThreshold Station, Dock Seven, and the boundary beyond it
Season 6
- S06E01C01 First Light, Off the RecordThe Boirinn Uplands, as remembered
- S06E01C02 What the Instruments KeptThreshold Station, Dock Seven and the Survey Archive
- S06E01C03 The Well Ran Warm AgainThe Boirinn Uplands, recursing
- S06E02C01 On the Record FirstThreshold Station, the High Captain's office and the Survey Archive
Undercover Pets
The Undercover Pets Detective Agency and the animals around it. Agent Barsik is a cat who reads the paperwork first. Bubochka is a rabbit still in training. And there is a small warm creature nobody can put a name to. Season 2, on Eden Space Habitat and the planet Drithane.
- S02E01C01 The Desk That Called FirstEden Space Habitat, Detective Bureau
- S02E01C02 The Office That Reads EverythingEden Space Habitat, Detective Bureau; Orbital Habitats Compact Headquarters, Office of the Chief Commissioner
- S02E01C03 A Very Ordinary CallOrbital Habitats Compact Headquarters, Office of the Chief Commissioner; Eden Space Habitat, Detective Bureau
- S02E02C01 Testing, Inspection and CertificationEden Space Habitat, Passage Oversight Deck and Deck 5 Service Tunnels
- S02E03C01 The Dark-DownDrithane (Bríd System), Gleann na gCaorach valley chain
- S02E03C02 Not From This HouseDrithane (Bríd System), Gleann na gCaorach valley chain
- S02E03C03 Carrying TwoDrithane (Bríd System), Gleann na gCaorach valley chain; Eden Space Habitat, Deck 7
- S02E04C01 The Undersong of the DrithleDrithane (Bríd System), Gleann na gCaorach valley chain
- S02E05C01 The Warm PatchEden Space Habitat, Deck 7 Galley and Dry Stores
- S02E06C01 The Unacceptable CatEden Space Habitat, Detective Bureau and the transfer berths behind it
- S02E07C01 Somebody's CatEden Space Habitat, Deck 7 Galley, Detective Bureau and the transfer dock
- S02E08C01 The Control GroupEden Space Habitat, Detective Bureau and the records room
- S02E09C01 The Thirteenth RequirementEden Space Habitat, Detective Bureau, the records room, and Detective Inspector Albercombe's flat
- S02E10C01 Four SecondsEden Space Habitat, Deck 7 walkway and galley approach, and the Detective Bureau
- S02E11C01 Sixty-Eight in a HundredEden Space Habitat, the ring terraces, the Terrace Committee room, and a berth two decks below the bureau floor
Orbital Five-O
The Governor's Investigative Task Force - Commander Kai Larsen closing the jurisdictional gap none of the five self-governing Compact habitats could close alone, answering to Governor Petra Voss directly and bypassing the Compact's slower consultative councils.
Season 10
- S10E01C01 Sent for the LogEden Space Habitat, Fold-Approach Watch and Certification Office
- S10E01C02 Sound, as CertifiedEden Space Habitat, Dock Ring understructure
- S10E01C03 What It Hangs FromEden Space Habitat, the room the Compact lends Orbital Five-O, and the Fold-Approach Watch
- S10E01C04 More, Not WhenEden Space Habitat, Dock Ring understructure and the Fold-Approach Watch
- S10E01C05 What Settles ItEden Space Habitat, Dock Ring understructure and the contractors' module
- S10E01C06 By InvitationEden Space Habitat, Fold-Approach Watch and the Dock Ring
- S10E01C07 Record in OrderEden Space Habitat, Dock Ring understructure and the Fold-Approach Watch
Young Star Rangers
The Corps from the bottom rung - Cadets and Deputies in their first field postings, the Field Officers the Corps hands them to, and the year in which a raw Deputy learns what the rank most civilians mean by a Star Ranger actually does all day.
- S09E01C01 Nothing to ReportEden Space Habitat, Fold-Approach Watch
- S09E01C02 The Door With the PlantEden Space Habitat, Fold-Approach Watch and the corridor outside it
- S09E01C03 What Did Not FitEden Space Habitat, Fold-Approach Watch
- S09E01C04 Without the CanEden Space Habitat, the corridor outside the Fold-Approach Watch
- S09E01C05 Stand Where You LikeEden Space Habitat, the Fold-Approach Watch and the corridor outside it
Below the Roof
The Pandoids of Fliade from inside the deep networks - a people who keep their record by speaking it, met for the first time on their own ground rather than the survey's, written for the child reader.
Season 11
- S11E01C01 Nobody Looked UpFliade — the deep networks below the equatorial band, and the upper levels where the survey works
- S11E01C02 Carried It SleepingFliade — the upper junction where the survey leaves its relay, the squeeze, and the line in the silt where the up-people's tracks stop
- S11E01C03 Someone to AskFliade — the warm below the roof, the edge of the up-people's light at the junction, and the line at the top of the margin
- S11E01C04 Waiting to Be AskedFliade — the line at the top of the margin, the squeeze, and the warm below the roof
- S11E01C05 Theirs to MoveFliade — the line at the top of the margin, the squeeze, and the warm below the roof
- S11E02C01 Eleven MinutesFliade — the upper junction where the surface party works, the station on the roof, and the line in the silt where the party's own tracks stop
- S11E02C02 Nothing HappenedFliade — the upper junction, the station on the roof, and the margin below the junction where the survey's light reaches and its people do not
- S11E02C03 Something HappenedFliade — the station on the roof, the upper junction, the squeeze, and the line in the silt
Season 12
- S12E01C01 No Warmth in ItFliade — the first warm seep, the warm below the roof, and the line at the top of the margin
- S12E01C02 Someone Is ComingFliade — the line at the top of the margin, the shelving below it, and the warm below the roof
- S12E01C03 Where Someone Always StandsFliade — the warm below the roof, the shelving, and the line at the top of the margin
- S12E01C04 Out of the WallFliade — the warm below the roof, the shelving, and the line at the top of the margin
- S12E01C05 Where the Rock IsFliade — the line at the top of the margin, the squeeze, and the warm below the roof
- S12E01C06 The Light Went Round ItFliade — the line at the top of the margin, the squeeze, and the warm below the roof
- S12E02C01 Imager FaultFliade — the upper junction where the surface party works, the line below the squeeze, and the station on the roof
- S12E02C02 NominalFliade — the station on the roof, the upper junction, and the squeeze
- S12E02C03 Two on the LineFliade — the upper junction, the squeeze, the line, and the station on the roof
The Infinite Castle and the Timeless Library
The Kingdom of the Five Islands from inside its own records - the court's chronicle recited under a tree, the Abbey's Accounting written in a hand that has never changed, and the Castle's people written in light - with a young keeper of each learning to hold one, and the survey's instruments at the edge of all three. Written for the young-adult reader.
- S13E01C01 The Names Go ByKrilzat, Casimor — the watch-post and the Castle, at the start of a storm season
- S13E01C02 A Door Was GivenKrilzat, Casimor — the Castle's long hall, past the notches, and the watch-post's door
- S13E02C01 The Same HandThe Abbeylands, Aduine — the Tideward Sisterhood's scriptorium and the terrace steps above the tide
- S13E02C02 Always ThereThe Abbeylands, Aduine — the scriptorium, the oldest shelf, and the terrace steps