Citywide operator
Celina White
Scheduling, permissions, crews, route changes, and emergency priorities are her domain. The White Rail belongs to no single district.
Field notes · First arrival
One Carrier. One city. Seven ways to keep it alive.
Tethys is a living, moving world with a city constructed across her shell. Every district has its own work, rhythm, and responsibility—and none stands alone.
Open the city mapFold-out plate 01
Find your bearings
The Edge Plates are shared no-build margins, not an eighth district.
Choose a district. The list is the complete keyboard and screen-reader alternative to the illustrated map.
Pinned itinerary
Seven districts
Follow color, civic purpose, or simple curiosity.
WHITE RAILcitywide service · overseen by Celina
Station-wall guide
A shared line along the dorsal spine
The White Rail connects every major district. It belongs to the city as a whole: a transit line, a civic lifeline, and an emergency route.
Guide correction: the green stop is Labs and Observatory. Some archival artwork still carries an older label.
Notes from the moving city
Daily life is part of the infrastructure
Tethys is not only a system diagram. It is a place to work, learn, remember, eat, rest, and belong.
Maintenance is civic care
A clean filter, clear walkway, sound bridge joint, and well-timed warning protect people and Carrier together.
Beauty has a job
Gardens filter water and grow food. Bathhouses reclaim water. Market stalls fold clear of airflow and emergency routes.
Learning to live together
The Listening Halls connect education, evidence, ethics, apprenticeship, and practical district responsibility.
Places to be off duty
Tea, cafés, dance floors, supper rooms, arcades, quiet gardens, and loud rider bars make room for lives beyond work.
Field note: companionship
Dragonflies, beetles, and bonds
Mounted animals are living partners with preferences, limits, and the right to refuse.
Open the named partnership note
Dragonflies have recognizable organic heads and bodies. Build is individual: some are admired for elegance, some for strength, and some bear the rounded evidence of too many affectionate snacks.
Apollo: Luminara is slim and elegant; Aurelion is his beetle.
Mizu: Nightwing is medium-built and unusually strong; Current is his beetle.
Landon: Basalt is broad-abdomened from generous snacks; Strata is his working beetle.
Solaris: Vibration is slim and elegant; Rosewalker is his beetle.
August: Drift is broad-abdomened from generous snacks; Wobble is his field-saddle beetle.
Devlin: Vector is medium-built and unusually strong; Ripcord is his rescue beetle.
Aerowin: Keystone is slim and elegant; Balance supports carriage work.
Nye: Pecan is sleek and recognizable by medical-team gear.
Kri: his dragonfly is slim and elegant; the companion name remains outside this preview until the registry conflict is resolved.
Shellwright field manual
Built on a living Carrier
Architecture adapts to movement without turning Tethys into a building.
Constructed, not carved
Ordinary buildings stand on the shell. They are not rooms inside living tissue.
Movement-aware
Routes, anchors, and maintenance account for the motion of the living Carrier beneath the city.
Shared margins
Edge Plates remain no-build zones used for safety, access, and observation.
