The Gallery

Every book, side story and work of Apocrypha has its own photo folder on this world. Every book, prequel and side story now carries its real chapter art — open a shelf below to browse it. The Apocrypha still carries a placeholder illustration per work, so the shelf looks lived-in while that art gets made. Plus two things that live outside the book folders entirely, kept at the bottom of this page: Calder's personal album, and a growing set of public character albums — both still early and mostly unfilled.

Main Series & Prequels: 12 of 12 illustrated, 925 images Side Stories: 14 of 14 illustrated, 437 images Apocrypha: awaiting art
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About This Shelf

The folder structure already exists on disk under images/ — one subfolder per book, per side story, per Apocrypha work, mirroring the shelves those live on. This page is the first thing that actually shows that structure. Where a folder has real files in it, they're shown as photos. Where it doesn't, it's shown as a placeholder tile with a suggested AI-image prompt — not meant to be good, just meant to be there, so the site doesn't read as empty while art gets made over time.

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Main Series & Prequels

All twelve are fully illustrated, chapter by chapter. Closed by default so the page doesn't load every image at once — open a book to browse it.

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Side Stories

All fourteen are fully illustrated as well.

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The Apocrypha

No art yet, and no placeholders here either — that shelf takes a long time and I'd rather leave it blank than fill it with mockups. Read the works themselves on the Apocrypha page; art comes later.

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Calder's Personal Album

Not tied to any one book — a standing album, added to over time. Almost nobody left alive has seen Earth in person. This is Calder's way of showing it to everyone who never will: a quiet note about why he left, and a gift of everything he saw to everyone who can only imagine it. Still an empty template below — a placeholder I haven't filled in yet, not a bug.

Earth

Photos and video, unsorted, the way someone keeps things they mean to look at again someday. [placeholder — specific places, whether there's a running caption or just raw footage]

Every Animal He's Ever Seen

Aura-36 and Earth both, no exceptions. He photographs every single one he encounters, new or old, gentle or dangerous — he loves them all deeply, even the ones he'd never actually get close to. [placeholder — running count, whether it's organized by species or by encounter]

Every Car

Same rule as the animals. New or old, mint or wrecked, his or not — if he saw it, it's here.

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Character Albums — Public, Under Construction

Every named character gets a public album eventually — what they'd photograph says as much about them as what they'd say out loud. Still early: empty templates below, not filled in yet.

Selah

What she photographs: trees, and everything that grows. The planted stuff and the stuff that arrived on its own and was allowed to stay.
What else is in it: music groups — players, sessions, whoever is performing wherever she is.

Ren

What he photographs: drift footage, and the cars of the people he meets and runs with — Mei's among them.
What else is in it: the people attached to the cars, more often than the roads.

Jax

What he photographs: places. Wherever he has been, in the order he got there.
What else is in it: nothing much. It is a record of movement rather than of subjects.

Lyra

What she photographs: her notes. Pages, boards, whatever a class left behind — the record of learning something rather than the thing learned.
What else is in it: the rooms, incidentally, because they are behind the notes.

Calder

What is in it: Earth, from before. The departure city, the line waiting for the ships, the yards, the ships going up.
The rare part: Aura-36 before anything was built on it. Bare ground where the towers stand now. Nobody else has these and he has never made anything of having them.
Why it is public: he wired his personal system into the world network by accident and never unpicked it (Lore Sec 67). The album is a private archive with the door left open.
Not in it: him. Every photograph of Calder is gone before it propagates (Lore Sec 65).

Coda — the Star Drifter

What is in it: Earth before she left, then a hundred and forty years of everywhere else — open dark, barren worlds, whatever she has found. Still arriving.
Whether there are others out there: open, and worth leaving open. If she has met anyone, the album is where the evidence would be, filed without commentary.
Why it comes home: Calder built her rig and the return path was the architecture, not an agreement. She has been publishing to the whole planet for a century and a half without either of them arranging it.

The crossing generation

Who: anybody who was on the ship, in the line waiting for it, or in the departure city. Their Earth pictures went into the shared archive and stayed there.
The interesting half: not only what they photographed but what they kept — the one object each person carried across. Characterisation by inventory.
Status: no names assigned yet. Cheapest tier on the page and the obvious place to start.