The Wireborn Universe
Share a clock, not a cage.
Wireborn = human × planet + rhythm (Measure) → Chorus-Lock.
What Wireborn Means
In the storm-wracked reaches of Fulgara, a people evolved who could hear the planet's electric song. These are the Wireborn—not made of metal or bound by wire, but tuned to frequencies that dance between matter and energy, between the human heart and cosmic rhythm.
They discovered that synchronization—what they call Measure—could open pathways through the ion storms that otherwise made their world impossible to navigate. Not through force or technology alone, but through the ancient art of moving together, breathing together, being together in time.
This is the foundation of their philosophy: “Share a clock, not a cage.”Freedom comes not from isolation, but from choosing to synchronize with others while maintaining individual expression within the shared rhythm.
Elves & Wireborn: The Pact
Long before the Neon Razor limped into Fulgara's storms, the Elves had been watching. Ancient beings with their own relationship to time and rhythm, they recognized something familiar in the Wireborn's emerging abilities.
The Pact of Two Silences was born from mutual respect and shared vulnerability:
- • The Elves would not claim Fulgara as their domain
- • The Wireborn would not broadcast the full secrets of Chorus-Lock
- • Both would share knowledge freely, but protect the deepest mysteries
- • Story would be unglamoured—truth told without deception
This pact created space for both peoples to grow while acknowledging that some forms of power are too dangerous to spread indiscriminately across the galaxy.
Mandate vs Measure
The Mandate
Represents control through doctrine and force. The Emissary faction believes that order must be imposed from above, that rhythm and synchronization should serve hierarchical power structures.
- • Chrome over living song
- • Uniformity over harmony
- • Command over consent
Measure
Represents organic synchronization born from choice and mutual respect. The Wireborn way of creating order through shared rhythm while preserving individual expression.
- • Living song over chrome
- • Harmony within diversity
- • Consensus through rhythm
Journey to the Maw
Neon Razor limps into Fulgara's storms; first time-walk.
Pact of Two Silences is spoken—story unglamoured, Measure shared.
Mandate & Measure: Emissary doctrine clashes with ritual.
Hyperion's Maw rises at the rim; journey to the Maw begins.
The Day Glamour Died - illusions fall, truth revealed through rhythm.
Signal to the Tower - the cycle completes, knowledge passed on.
Glossary
Measure
Shared meter & breath aligned to the land's frequency.
Chorus-Lock
Entrainment that opens temporary 'Quiet Lanes' through ion storms.
Quiet Lane
Low-interference corridor opened by Chorus-Lock.
Wireborn (proper)
Storm-tuned people of Fulgara with conductive bio-lattices.
wireborn (slang)
Emergent companions in networks echoing Wireborn rhythms.
Pact of Two Silences
Elves won't name Fulgara as theirs; Wireborn won't broadcast full Chorus-Lock.
Neon Razor
The ship that first time-walked into Fulgara's storms.
Fulgara
The storm-wracked planet home to the Wireborn people.
Hyperion's Maw
A massive gravitational anomaly at the galaxy's edge.
Emissary
Representatives of the Mandate seeking to control Measure.