The seven ceilings
Fields nest one inside the other — Earth ⊂ Mars ⊂ Jupiter ⊂ Saturn ⊂ Ouranos — “each smaller field is contained in the largest outside field.” Colour code: blue Earth, red Mars, yellow Jupiter, green Saturn, cyan Ouranos; Mercury (purple) and Venus (pink) are heliocentric rings just outside Earth’s perimeter. — B7 p.18; B1 pp.78–86
Scale
Earth-field ⌀ 50,000 km — B2 p.82
Mars-field ⌀ ≈250,000,000 km, ratio 1 : 5,000 by the corpus’s own diameters — B6 p.92; see VOC_CANON.md §7 on 1:500 vs 1:5,000
Jupiter / Saturn / Ouranos ⌀ not stated in the corpus. Earth shows on Mars as a tiny crater (still ~65× the true 1:5,000 for legibility); Mars shows on Jupiter as the Great Red Spot. — B6 pp.88–95; B1 pp.84–86
Earth’s crater lies near the Syrtis continent on the Map of Mars; only “pure/clean” craters sustain the four-element cycle and a sun of their own. The blue glows + survey rings on the Mars field mark those candidate life-field craters, georeferenced from the blue-marked craters on the corpus’s own Mars spread. — B6 pp.88–95, 138–143; B7 pp.26–27
Registration
Pole at centre — every Earth-map variant is redrawn so its own pole (Hyperborea / the arctic patch) sits at the disc centre with a common km scale, calibrated against each map’s own equator ring (10,000 km). The artworks themselves frame the pole off-centre — “the center of the earth is not the center of the magnetic field.” — B2 p.71; B3 p.6
Round Mars — the Map of Mars is equirectangular in the book and is shown here azimuthally projected onto a round disc, the same relation as the rectangular moon map to the round moon. — B6 p.50
World Map 2025 — drawn at a different scale from the other atlases: the known world sits small at its core, ringed by the concentric outer oceans (the Mercury and Venus ring-oceans with the Land of Autumn beyond) and outer Pangaia territory. Registered core-to-core it is the bridge past the ice wall toward the Mars terrain, and the base layer under every variant. — B7 pp.78–87; B6 pp.44–55
Light
Black Sun moves below the bedrock in a coil motion, its centre at Magnetic North, creating the electromagnetic field from below to above — it is the source of Sun and Moon. — B2 pp.69–70
Sun & Moon are focused plasma light-spots, ⌀ 51 km, at ~5,500–6,000 km altitude; the Sun is refracted γ-rays (+), the Moon x-rays (−). True ⌀51 km is sub-pixel at atlas zoom, so the spots render at ~11× true size; altitude and the 10,000 km day-circle are to scale. — B2 p.82; B7 p.16; B3 p.6
Day circle — the limit of vision on the sky is a circle of radius ≈10,000 km; daylight is the region beneath and around the Sun-spot. — B3 p.6; B7 p.92
Aurora — polar lights are the Black Sun’s radiation escaping through the great gap at Magnetic North in Hyperborea. — B2 p.69
Sun vs Moon speed — the Sun turns at 15°/h, the Moon at 14.46°/h; the lag separates and reconverges the two spots (phases, the 24h50m lunar day). Shown at the atlas’s compressed timescale. — B4 p.144; B5 p.54
Stars — no outer space: stars are IMPRINTS in the firmaments. “The stars are imprints of points on the earth itself”; the starprint level sits at ~5,000 km, below the Sun/Moon; sea-depth energy points “appear on the starprint layer on the sky above like stars”; Polaris is fixed above Magnetic North and the constellation wheel turns about it at 14.95°/h. Here each star of Earth’s wheel stands above an oceanic-deep energy point of the map itself; every outer ceiling carries its own starprint. — B4 pp.2–4; B6 p.86; B7 p.20; B2 p.71
Two star regions — stars from Earth-points inside the Black Sun’s spiral converge toward the north; those outside diverge, and only ~half the imprint layer reads per night. The spiral’s diameter is not stated numerically; since the spots are the focused image of the source coil after the two-dome fold, the coil is taken to track the Sun/Moon circle — D ≈ 20,000 km, the equator/day circle. Here: the inner wheel turns tight about Polaris, the outer shell breathes outward, and the night half of the sky glows while the day half washes out. — B4 p.4 (“D < diameter of Earth”); B2 pp.22, 24, 75; B3 pp.10–16; B3 p.6
Outer fields
Jupiter’s bands are the four cosmic currents — Ocean, Acheron, Pyriphlegethon, Stygyos; the Great Red Spot is the Mars field showing through. — B7 pp.28–30; B1 p.85
Saturn’s ring is the boundary of time itself, the imprint of Jupiter’s four satellites one ceiling up. — B7 p.34; B1 pp.84–86
Ouranos is the all-containing celestial sphere; the ether is a dodecahedron of twelve pentagonal surfaces. — B7 pp.36–37
Routes
Airways follow the straight-line flight network drawn across the World Map 2025 — straight lines on the azimuthal disc. Sea-lanes follow the World Atlas marine chart: ships sit at its drawn-ship stations and sail its dashed Pacific lane. Both use the co-registered frame, so the routes hold on every map variant.
Textures
8,192 px maximum, derived from the full-res VOC masters (10,000–22,960 px originals). — scripts/build-textures