The storyworld
One Hundred and Two Lightyears Away is a science fiction western. Humanity's last survivors arrive on VOI 700 D as refugees, not conquerors, and have to earn a place on a divided planet. Frontier hardship, political tension, fragile coexistence, advanced technology, and post-crash scarcity, all at once.
VOI 700 D
The planet always shows the same face to its red dwarf. Scroll along the terminator from the scorched side, through the twilight belt, into the dark.
01 · Up to 70 °C · eternal day
East of the belt the star never sets. Sand moves in walls, the ground reaches seventy degrees, and nothing that came from Earth lasts long without protection. Few go there. Fewer come back with what they went for.
Explore Desert Side in the 102 Wiki Adds the scorched day hemisphere.
02 · 20–28 °C · 400–500 km wide · eternal sunset
A strip four to five hundred kilometres wide where the light is always the last minutes of sunset. Twenty to twenty-eight degrees, all year, forever. Every settlement but one stands here, on ground the Native Tribes held long before the ship came down.
Explore Habitual Belt in the 102 Wiki Adds the twilight strip where life is possible.
03 · Down to −70 °C · eternal night
West of the belt the night does not end. Minus seventy on a clear day. Copper under the ice, heat under the volcano, and one town that burns lanterns against all of it. Those who want to be forgotten walk west.
Explore Dark Side in the 102 Wiki Adds the frozen night hemisphere and its predators.
Three ages
The storyworld spans three eras. Each one is a different kind of story, and the wiki holds the dated record.
Earth is failing. In 2421 the multigenerational ship Last Frontier leaves Kourou with humanity’s last chance aboard. Eighty years later the first destination turns them away by force. The council votes. The ship turns toward a planet no one has seen.
2625. The Last Frontier crashes on VOI 700 D. The survivors are given an emergency camp by the people who already live there. Settlements rise, a Free State is declared, a mine opens in the dark. Within four years the alliances break and the Great War begins.
The war is lost and a treaty is signed. The Free State is dissolved, a Federal Confederation is voted in, and humanity lives on reservations it does not own. Peace brings elections, parties, bureaucracy, and the old question in a new form.
Three peoples
Each people holds something the others lack. The wiki has the detailed portraits; here is enough to understand who is at the table.
Around twenty-five thousand descendants of the exodus. They arrived with the technology of a starship and lost most of it in the crash. What remains is rationed, regulated, or jury-rigged. Their power is knowledge. Their weakness is remembering being dominant.
Explore ExoHumans in the 102 Wiki Adds the human survivors and their society.
Some seven and a half million people who call the planet Shang-Gha-Lea and have lived in its twilight belt for longer than human history. They granted the survivors a camp. They also went to war with them. Their belonging is not in question. Everyone else’s is.
Explore Native Tribes of VOI 700 D in the 102 Wiki Adds the planet’s original peoples.
The third people of the storyworld. What they know, what they want, and what they think of humans is best learned in the wiki, one careful page at a time.
Explore Zonko in the 102 Wiki Adds the third people of the storyworld.
The central question
Stripped of its cradle, its dominance and its certainties, humanity has to answer two questions on VOI 700 D. Who are we, seen through other eyes? And who can we become, if we choose not to repeat what doomed Earth?
This is not a story about heroic colonization. Nobody here is entitled to the planet. The setting keeps asking whether the survivors can stop repeating what ended Earth, and it does not promise an answer.
Three ways in
Play
Four browser games set on VOI 700 D, and pen and paper modules for the table. Free test versions, ready-made characters, a scene template for your own stories.
Listen
Audio plays and audiobooks tell the same world from other vantage points. Samples first, then the store.
Explore
The full reference: ages, peoples, settlements, factions, wildlife, technology. Curated entry points, then the whole map.
Looking for the raw reference? Open the 102 Wiki directly (102 Wiki).
The reference layer
The 102 Wiki maps the ages, peoples, settlements, factions, wildlife, and histories of VOI 700 D. Follow a thread from the story you are reading or begin with the planet itself.
The wiki is a separate reference site and may contain spoilers for the adventures. Your browser's back button returns you here.