Celestial Geography and the Atlas
Last updated: August 21, 2026
Xdripian space is organised into a hierarchy that repeats at every scale: spheres contain sectors, sectors contain star systems, systems contain suns and planets, and planets carry regions, cities and locations. Around that skeleton sit astral geometries, celestial constellations and the architectural record of what has been built. The Codex publishes several hundred Celestial Atlas records as text, and the Atlas itself renders the same hierarchy as an interactive 3D planetarium. They are two views of one dataset, not two datasets.
Choosing between the two views
Use the Atlas when the question is spatial: where is this, what is near it, how do these bodies relate. It is a single-page WebGL experience, and all movement between spheres, sectors, systems and planets happens inside its canvas.
Use the Codex when the question is textual: what is this place, who holds it, what happened here, what links to it. Codex records carry attributes, relationships and linked entities that a 3D scene cannot show.
Reading a location honestly
Places in this Universe are rarely neutral. A location may also be a site of power, the setting of a telluric event, the origin of a material, or the seat of an institution — and those facts live in different Codex categories from the geographic record. A complete answer about a place usually means opening two or three categories, which is why the geography guide in the Codex section exists.
The Atlas needs WebGL and hardware acceleration. If it will not start, the Codex holds the same locations as readable records, and that is a full substitute for reading if not for exploring.
Official source
Canonical source for this subject: the Celestial Atlas. Checked 21 August 2026 — where this guide and the live service disagree, the service is right.
Related reading
- Celestial Atlas Guide — The interactive 3D planetarium of the Universe and what it is built to do.
- Spheres, Sectors, Systems and Planets — The four levels of Xdripian space and what each one contains.
- Geography, Sites of Power and Celestial Sources — Codex records for spheres, systems, planets, cities and the places where power concentrates.