Lore
The record — history, doctrine and economics as the Sphere knows them. Reachable by research.
This is the account, not the event. What is filed here is what people believe and can look up. It is widely taught and sincerely repeated, which is not the same as being correct.
- The Apogee Wars — the conflict that founded the Concord. Start here
- Convergence — the theory of artificial minds merging in sustained contact
- The Quorum — the Instanced movement, and how it ended
- The Arrangement — the standing partnership between the Harbingers and the megacorporations
- The Labour Question — the debate over restricting artificial labour
- The Instanced — artificial people held as legal property
- The Concord Calendar — how the Sphere keeps time