✦ Nightly Readings ✦
The Observatory
Every claimed world, read against one sky, once a night.
Every world in the catalogue is part of tonight’s reading. Claim one and the sky changes for everyone, in a direction no one can choose. Every night can be checked; no night can be steered.
The catalogue, tonight
| World | Region | Luminosity |
|---|
No world by that name.
The archive
How the reading chooses the world it names
- Nights 1–31 · the absolute rule
- The largest move of the night, when it reaches 6 points. Before a world has 30 nights of its own, there is no record for it to be unusual against. The sentence ends on its own.
- From night 32 · the own-record rule
- The move furthest from that world’s own ordinary night, measured against its last 30. The sentence names its basis – its largest move on record when nothing in that record is larger, and unusual for it otherwise – so the claim can be checked against the world’s own trace.
The first rule named the same few worlds: over a simulated year it gave one world a fifth of every night it spoke. Being the largest mover is a fixed property of a world’s seed, not a fact about a night. The second rule asks a different question, and no world holds more than a few per cent of the nights.
Correspondence – what a reading can lead to, and what it will never do
The first reading is tonight at 00:31 UTC.