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Earth

Home. Eight billion people, and the asteroid Acolal on a certain collision course — impact 21 June 2086. Sixty years to move them.

Transport capacity

Nobody teleports between worlds in Gravitrek. Getting anywhere runs through SpaceArch -- operators who earn the right to run a shipyard through credentials, materials, construction permits and safety capacity, then coordinate real launch slots.

Earth alone has eighteen regional Astro Launch Platforms, each its own local mission board: the right documentation, cargo prepared, a regional problem resolved, and a wait for a valid launch window. Bridge keys and visas get you clearance. They were never a shortcut past the queue.

The Astral Hunt

The Solar Power Sphere is what makes the historical chapters possible at all -- Teotihuacan, Giza, and the rest stay locked until a pioneer holds a time anchor and a return reserve. There is no route into the past without both.

What comes back is never unlimited loot: a verified blueprint, a route coordinate, a relic pattern, a lost legal claim -- bounded, attested, real. Each of the eighteen Astral Bridges is discovered the same honest way: a signal logged, a lead verified, before it ever opens onto land, travel, or ownership.

	Acolal	The asteroid on a certain collision course with Earth — impact 21 June 2086.
	Earth	Home. Eight billion people and sixty years to move them.
	Jebel Irhoud Background	Jebel Irhoud, in the hills outside Marrakech, holds the oldest known Homo sapiens fossils on Earth -- skulls, tools and fire-hardened flint redated in 2017 to roughly 300,000 years old, a finding that rewrote the species' own timeline overnight. Every earlier estimate had placed humanity's origin closer to 200,000 years, in East Africa alone; Jebel Irhoud pushed it back further than anyone expected, and put Morocco on the map instead. In Gravitrek's telling, that number is not a coincidence. Three hundred thousand years ago is the same moment the gods of Neterios first arrived at Earth and sent the Guardians of the Seven Tribes to watch over it. What the 2017 excavation actually found, without knowing it, was the ground truth of that arrival -- the oldest trace of a species that was never quite alone from the start. Humanity has only just caught up to a date the gods set long before there was anyone left to write it down.