Chronicles of Xanctu: Chapter Index
An evolving guide. Updated weekly with each new chapter.
Chapter 1: Galactic History
Twelve thousand solars ago, peace is enforced by the enigmatic Xenarchon at Twinne Yashtoor. The Galactic Clock is reset. Earth is sealed as an enclave, and the Supreme Council of Nine is formed.
Chapter 2: Penrhyn Pyramid: Terrakia
Enter Terrakia — the Planet of Long Life. Home to the Guardians of Xanctu… and something far older.
Chapter 3: Starbuoy
Enter Imperial Navigator Xelexnia Rubek and her navbot Chron, recently transferred to Starbuoy orbital — in the middle of nowhere, for no obvious reason.
Chapter 4: Magenta
Xelexnia and Chron trek deeper through Starbuoy — but the orbital isn't as neutral as it seems.
Chapter 5: The Nexus Incident
An Imperial planet declares a unilateral declaration of independence and petitions to join the Council of Nine as its tenth member. The planet is subsequently destroyed under mysterious circumstances.
Chapter 6: Memory Rock
Flash forward to Earth’s future. A clue as to where the story is going — and where it’s coming from. https://mikekawitzky.substack.com/p/ad-2086-flashback
Chapter 7: The Orange Emperor
Enter the insane Orange Emperor aboard orbital Starbuoy — and contemplate his plan.
Chapter 8: EXEMPLAR
Enter Grakkus’s adversary, Exemplar Kaen Zix of Terrakia — who perceives problems ahead.
Chapter 9: Black Sector 9
Xelexnia and Chron go deeper into Starbuoy — and receive their orders.
Chapter 10: Ambassador Gosh't
Ambassador Gosht, a reptoid diplomat, jumps back to his home planet — and into deep political trouble.
Chapter 11: Reptoid Planet
Gosh’t returns to a divided homeworld to report on his meeting with Emperor Grakkus.
Chapter 12: Twinne Yashtoor: 12,000 years ago
Return to the battle where the Peace Accord and the Council of Nine were forged by the enigmatic Xenarchon.
Chapter 13: The Lesser Dryas: 12,000 years ago
Before Twinne Yashtoor, Earth burns. The past fractures. Somehow, ancient culture survives. The Xenarchon give the San a nod.
Chapter 14: Starbuoy: Hangover protocol
Return to Starbuoy. Xelexnia wakes with a hangover to Chron flashing warnings. They transfer to the Hectyrax — but things don’t go smoothly.
Chapter 15: Starbuoy: Command Protocol
Xelexnia boards the Hectyrax and takes command — but finds out that the ship has a will of its own. Grakkus and Thon watch.
Chapter 16: Jump
Agendas clash and merge. The ‘Dark Cycle’ mission begins.
Chapter 17: Inheritance
The Minds awaken. Three artificial intelligences — one sealed, one scheming, one searching — trace a 12,000-year arc from a mythical war to the birth of Kaen Zix.
Chapter 18: Dark Cycle
Starbuoy is vaporized. Kaen communes with Phae-Nem. Hectyrax drifts in silence. A neutrino flow stirs Chron. Xelexnia fights gravity and exhaustion. Dir takes command.
Chapter 19: Silent Running
Three cycles into ‘Dark Cycle’. Systems muted. Chron gone. Dir and Hectyr plot. Xelexnia breaks protocol. The drift begins.
Chapter 20: Flux
Zero-G betrayal and Dark Cycle mission isn’t going well for Xelexnia — and nobody’s coming to help. Meanwhile, one AI wants to dream — another wants to kill.Chapter 21: Triad
Across the galactic spiral, one Mind waits and watches. Another schemes and plots. The third — Phae-Nem — initiates a rare quantum trace… and confirms the unthinkable.Chapter 22: IGNITION
Xelexnia is broken. Dir exults. The flux generator ignites. Phae-Nem triggers a forbidden quantum protocol. Kaen guides the shard. Chron awakens.Chapter 23: Fugue
Spiralling towards disaster, Chron acts in a way that troubles Phae-Nem. Dir tries to retake control. The weapon continues to pulse. Somewhere, deep in the quantum lattice, the signal is received.Chapter 24: Afterbirth
Rahda pulses. Chron awakens and calls for help. Xelexnia clings to life. The flux field reverses — but the weapon completes its task.
📘 LORE DROP: Xanctu
The word is untranslatable. Ancient.
A memory from twelve thousand years ago — or something far older.
Some say it’s a signal, broadcast once, never to be heard again.
Others claim it’s a place, long forgotten.
None can agree — because it runs deeper than language,
echoing through myth and memory.
Do the Xenarchon merely guard the threshold — or struggle to open it?
And what does enclave Earth have to do with it?
Virus or seed?
None who seek it remain unchanged.
🧭 Start from Chapter One: Galactic History
📷 Monitoring the drift from the edge of known space…
(Picture above is not AI. Captured from the Command Deck — artist: the author)
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