Lore: Ether's Universe

orbitmines.com/app/[...path]/page.tsx

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 import CatchAllClient from './CatchAllClient';
 import { PROFILE_NAMES } from '../profiles/[profile]/page';
+import loreData from '../../src/lore/generated/lore.json';
+
+// Enumerate the lore reader URLs so /lore/... is directly loadable (dev) and
+// prerendered (prod) — otherwise dynamicParams=false would 404 these. All
+// render the same client SPA; deeper state (?p, ?entity) is client-side only.
+function loreParams() {
+  const params: { path: string[] }[] = [
+    { path: ['lore'] },
+    { path: ['lore', 'edit'] },
+  ];
+  for (const id of Object.keys(loreData.books)) {
+    params.push({ path: ['lore', id] });
+    params.push({ path: ['lore', id, 'read'] });
+    params.push({ path: ['lore', id, 'codex'] });
+  }
+  return params;
+}
+
 export function generateStaticParams() {
   return [
     { path: ['_catchall'] },
     ...Object.keys(PROFILE_NAMES).map((handle) => ({ path: [`@${handle}`] })),
+    ...loreParams(),
   ];
 }
 

orbitmines.com/content/lore/SCHEMA.md

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+# Lore content format
+
+All lore is plain markdown under `content/lore/`. A build step
+(`scripts/lore/build-lore.mjs`) parses it into `src/lore/generated/lore.json`,
+which the reader and codex consume. You can author these files by hand or with
+any Obsidian-style editor — the conventions below are deliberately
+Obsidian-compatible.
+
+```
+content/lore/
+  books/        one file per book (the main story + per-character books)
+  chapters/     one file per chapter (a chapter may belong to several books)
+  characters/   character entities (the "who is this?" cards)
+  codex/        other entities: events/, locations/, concepts/, organizations/
+```
+
+Every entity (book, chapter, character, codex entry) has a stable `id`. Ids are
+case-insensitive and referenced from prose with wikilinks: `[[I]]`, or with a
+display label `[[I|my little brother]]`. Aliases declared in frontmatter also
+resolve.
+
+---
+
+## Books — `books/<id>.md`
+
+```yaml
+---
+id: main
+title: The Story
+kind: main            # main | character
+subtitle: A culmination of every account.
+cover: /lore-assets/covers/main.svg
+order: 0              # sort order on the /lore landing page
+characters: [I, II, III, S, B]   # (main books) POV characters offered on the homepage
+chapters:             # ordered chapter ids that make up THIS book
+  - prologue
+  - i-first-day
+  - ii-lecture
+  - i-online
+---
+Back-cover blurb (markdown).
+```
+
+- `chapters` is the **ordering authority**. A chapter listed in several books
+  can appear in a different position in each.
+- A `kind: character` book is one character's account. Its homepage links back
+  to the main story and its sibling character books.
+
+## Chapters — `chapters/<id>.md`
+
+```yaml
+---
+id: i-first-day
+title: First Day
+pov: I                 # POV character id
+books: [main, I]       # informational; book.chapters controls order
+characters: [I, IC, IA]  # present in the scene (auto-augmented from wikilinks)
+summary: One-line summary for the chapter list.
+---
+Prose. Reference entities with [[I]] / [[IC|his mother]]. Just write — the
+chapter is split into A5 pages automatically (no page markers needed), for both
+the web reader and the PDF.
+
+<!-- page -->
+
+A `<!-- page -->` line on its own is optional: it forces a page break where you
+want one (auto-pagination still applies within each forced section).
+```
+
+### Reveal callouts
+
+Obsidian-style callouts inside a chapter record *what becomes known and when*.
+They are anchored to the page they appear on, so the codex only shows them once
+a reader has read that far.
+
+```
+> [!reveal] A world fact the reader now knows.
+> [!knows|I,IA] Characters I and IA learn this; tracked per-character.
+> [!event] Something that happened (shown on the codex timeline).
+> [!secret|II] Known to the reader and to II, but e.g. not to I.
+```
+
+Format: `> [!type]` or `> [!type|id,id,...]` then the fact text. `type` is free
+(`reveal`, `knows`, `event`, `secret`, `meets`, ...). The `|csv` lists entity
+ids the fact is attributed to.
+
+## Characters — `characters/<id>.md`
+
+```yaml
+---
+id: I
+type: character
+name: "[I]"
+role: Highschool student
+age: 16
+image: /lore-assets/characters/I.svg
+aliases: []
+relations:
+  - "sibling of [[II]]"
+---
+Spoiler-free baseline description. Anything time-sensitive should instead be a
+reveal callout in the chapter where it surfaces.
+```
+
+## Codex — `codex/<kind>/<id>.md`
+
+Same as characters but `type: event | location | concept | organization`.

orbitmines.com/content/lore/books/B.md

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+---
+id: B
+title: "Kyra Empson"
+kind: character
+subtitle: 0.B0.4F.1
+cover: /lore-assets/covers/B.svg
+order: 5
+chapters:
+  - prologue
+---
+
+[B]'s account. (To be written.)

orbitmines.com/content/lore/books/I.md

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+---
+id: I
+title: Jay Armac
+kind: character
+subtitle: 1.E2031.16G.1
+cover: /lore-assets/covers/I.svg
+order: 1
+chapters:
+  - incident
+characters:
+  - I
+---
+
+Future R.

orbitmines.com/content/lore/books/II.md

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+---
+id: II
+title: "Hana Armac"
+kind: character
+subtitle: 1.E2024.23B.1
+cover: /lore-assets/covers/II.svg
+order: 2
+chapters:
+  - II.1
+---
+
+Sister of [[I]]

orbitmines.com/content/lore/books/III.md

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+---
+id: III
+title: Bjorne Specter
+kind: character
+subtitle: 0.E2026.0A.1
+cover: /lore-assets/covers/III.svg
+order: 3
+chapters:
+  - interlude
+characters:
+  - III
+---
+
+Dutch researcher

orbitmines.com/content/lore/books/S.md

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+---
+id: S
+title: Raafar Kemmett
+kind: character
+subtitle: 0.S0.0A.1
+cover: /lore-assets/covers/S.svg
+order: 4
+chapters:
+  - prologue
+  - solvergence
+---
+
+[S]'s account. (To be written.)

orbitmines.com/content/lore/books/main.md

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+---
+id: main
+title: The Main Story
+kind: main
+subtitle: 1.E2047.0A.1
+cover: /lore-assets/covers/main.jpg
+order: 0
+characters:
+  - I
+  - II
+  - III
+  - S
+  - B
+chapters:
+  - prologue
+  - II.1
+  - incident
+  - interlude
+  - solvergence
+---
+
+A mind incapable of being reprogrammed is a vulnerable one. But you are never more vulnerable when you are being reprogrammed! Whether this is self-inflicted or is done so by your environment is of little consequence. After you're in a more stable state, can you more closely represent what reality is?

orbitmines.com/content/lore/chapters/II.1.md

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+---
+id: II.1
+title: II.1
+pov: II
+books:
+  - II
+  - main
+characters:
+  - II
+  - IIB
+  - IIC
+summary: ""
+---
+*It's difficult to imagine what life is like without certain technologies. They transform our world. They were once radical, and now they are obvious. For our parents it was the coming of computers and daresay the internet. For us it is its natural expansion as what is now known as the [[ether]].*
+**2032**
+
+The door swung open loudly. Taking everyone's attention in the room for a brief moment. All the way in the back of the room sat two students who recognized the person who just entered.
+
+"Perfectly on time [[IIC]]!" shouted one of the two.
+
+"No need to embarass him further [[IIB]]". Said the other one.
+
+"There is in fact every need to embarass him further," teasingly adding in a slow voice: "[[II]]".
+
+[[II]] rolled her eyes in an over-the-top way.
+
+"A you're like this because it's a hoodie-day. I see." he fired at her.
+
+"You're making friends today." she shot a glance up, bringing the pen in her hand to her lips. "But you're right, it is in fact a hoodie-day."
+
+"Ah, here he comes waddling in" said [[IIB]] as their friend came up the stairs running towards them.
+
+Seeming to need air incredibly badly, out of breath, he quickly said: "You guys got-to see this."
+
+At the same time [[II]] and [[IIB]] started speaking:
+
+"I am seeing it."
+
+"See what?"
+
+They exchanged a quick glance, after which [[IIB]] shrugged.
+
+"You guys got-to see this." he repeated even faster.
+
+"See what?" repeated [[II]] too
+
+"We're supposed to be starting Distributed Systems 5 minutes ago." said [[IIB]] dismissively.
+
+"No seriously, here." as [[IIC]] quickly opened his backpack. And took out his laptop.
+
+"I got told by [[IIE]] about this just now. Apparently there's this new game - well he told me it was kind of a game or something - called the [[ether]]."
+
+"A game? The Ether as in The Nether? Minecraft?" said [[IIB]] jokingly.
+
+In a sarcastic tone the friend replied with "Yeah, yeah, of course, exactly, The Nether..."
+
+[[II]] intruigingly said: "As in the luminif- something aether? The physics thing? But then a ... game?"
+
+Before the friend could respond [[IIB]] shot a random: "Well [[IIE]]'s family is from The Netherlands right? Or should I say The Etherlands? That must be where they got the name from."
+
+[[II]] now looked at him once more glaringly, which caused a second shrug.
+
+"Hell if I know where they got the name from, what does it matter? Let me just show you."
+

orbitmines.com/content/lore/chapters/incident.md

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+---
+id: incident
+title: ""
+pov: I
+books:
+  - main
+  - I
+characters:
+  - I
+summary: ""
+---

orbitmines.com/content/lore/chapters/interlude.md

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+---
+id: interlude
+title: Interlude
+pov: III
+books:
+  - III
+  - main
+characters:
+  - III
+summary: ""
+---
+***Regramance** - the state of reaching total reprogrammability. Criticality. A systems ability operate as a universal computer. In psychological terms partially achievable through means of psychosis.*
+**[[2200.A]]**
+