World
The setting of Citadel: an ancient machine larger than memory, and the people living inside it.
| The Citadel | The megastructure itself and what is known about it. |
|---|---|
| The Derailment | The catastrophe that followed the halt of DAAT. |
| Mainframe | Humanity's known world: three strata, city-states and frontier. |
| Breachers | The crews who force passages into sealed regions. |
| Factions | The powers fighting over Mainframe. |
| Machine intelligences | Mathrons, daemons, golems, ghouls and morning stars. |
| Security circuits | The staged response that defends protected zones. |
| Aberrations | Organisms that are living beings and machines at once. |
| Timeline | Dated events, from Clement to the Credit Revolution. |