Reading a Star System Page

Every portal address has a page: /1-111111111111 for example. This page explains how to read it.

Where each value comes from

Every value on the page carries its provenance, so you always know how much to trust it.

Confirmed: charted by an explorer and accepted by moderation.
Pending review: sent by an explorer, waiting for moderation. Shown so you do not have to wait, but not confirmed yet.
Predicted: computed from the address alone by the Oracle, the site's model of the procedural generation. Often right, never guaranteed. Measured reliability is shown on the Oracle pages.

Data varies a lot from one system to another: some are fully charted, some only have a name. Surveying a system by hand is real work, so the catalogue is never perfect.

The kinds of systems

Charted

Someone has been there. Depending on the survey you may find: name and discoverer, star colour and spectral class, planets and moons, inhabitants, wealth, economy, conflict level, black hole exit, a guide written by the explorer, a link and a screenshot. If parts are still missing, the page tells you which, and lets you fill them in.

Example: Birdy.

Predicted

Nobody has charted it yet. Its name and traits are an educated guess from its coordinates: the name is introduced as "Could be named…", and the star colour may be wrong. Been there? Confirm a predicted value with one click, or survey the whole system. See Contributing.

Void

The Oracle computed the region and found no star system at this index. There is nothing to visit, and the page says so rather than inventing a system. Even the Sentinels have nothing to guard here.

Legacy universe

Some systems were documented in an earlier version of the universe:

before the Atlas Rises regeneration (11 August 2017), which rewrote the stars;
or on PS4 or Xbox only, before generation was unified across platforms, so the same address leads elsewhere on PC.

These records are kept and marked as archaeology, not deleted as errors: they describe places that existed and no longer do. Why we keep them: Why an archive.

Black holes

When the exit of a black hole is known, the page shows the exit system, the approximate length of the jump, and how much closer to the core it brings you. The exit system links back to its origin. When no exit has been logged yet, the page invites you to log it.

Example: a black hole in Euclid.

The address block

the portal address (glyphs), the galactic address and the voxel coordinates, each with a copy button;
the short link and its QR code;
the region, cube, block, sector, quadrant and galaxy the system belongs to: see Navigation.

Actions

Copy, Share, Save (a picture of the address), Bookmark (into My Glyphs).
Full PDF of the page.
Survey or Share a memory (the guide part of a survey), for charted systems that miss one.
Nearest black hole, nearest purple star, random neighbour, and the region around the system.
Other formats of the same page (QR, picture, JSON for save editors, plain text): Use direct URL.

Extras

NPC reviews: a few thousand terrible, fake travel reviews and quotes from the locals, at the bottom of the page. They have a lot to say about us. They are kept in the dadabase. Sorry.
Human-readable addresses: some addresses follow a pattern (palindromes, repeats, sequences, like 111222111222). When one is found, the page says so.

Last updated: 9 October 2026