Shard Camp

A temporary excavation settlement where Expanse prospectors dig for crystalline fragments in the fractured dunes. Shard Camp relocates every few months as deposits are exhausted, leaving behind perfectly geometric divots in the sand. Mirror Post supplies it with water and food. Out in the Glass Expanse, this site is part of the network of prism-fields, shard-towns, and silica plateaus that surround Prism City. Light bends here in ways the Pattern cannot quite hold — the air sometimes refracts a scene from a different hour, and the Starving Silence forms where light has shattered the same way too many times in the same place. The Knowledge Fragmentation Principle was first formalised by Expanse philosophers a generation before the Luminous Fold accepted it.