Lore

Aetheria’s lore is the record of a civilizational machine: contract citizenship, managed scarcity, militarized infrastructure, cognitive labor, disputed personhood, and the older late-Sol systems that survive into Elysium by changing form without surrendering their contradictions.

Read this branch as linked pressure rather than encyclopedic garnish. Start with the premise, move through the eras and institutions that make it possible, and then follow how those same conditions persist when reality itself becomes less stable.