Holding VI, The Others.
Entered Year 112. Amended twice. The shortest entry in this holding, deliberately.
An empire of the Astral Elves, seated in the Solanar Expanse, holding worlds in numbers we have never established. They operate by fleet, and by putting their own populations onto worlds they mean to keep.
They ended Remnar.
What we hold
The name, got in Year 112 from three unrelated traders who each supplied it independently when asked who held the Expanse. We did not get it from any Remnari witness. No survivor who reached this fortress ever named the power that took their world. They described what they saw, and that is in Holding VII as nineteen fragments nobody has reconciled.
The location of the Expanse, charted at the widest avoidance margin in the standing list.
That their vessels pass through this sphere. Seven passages seen between Year 112 and Year 392, all at distance, no contact, the fortress dark each time. We logged hull, heading, and duration. Nothing else, because nothing else was attempted.
What we do not hold
How Remnar was ended. Why. What they wanted, want, or intend toward the Remnari still alive. Their command structure, their internal politics, their doctrine, their numbers, the name of a single officer, or whether they know this fortress exists.
We say so plainly so that nobody spends a Terminal’s time hunting this holding for something that was never put in it.
The standing order
Made at the founding, renewed by every set of Exemplars since.
Do not trade with them. Do not treat with them. Do not be observed by them. Hold the fortress dark when their vessels pass. Treat no distance from their holdings as sufficient.
No qualification, no exception. Vesh Ilketh Openhand proposed narrow exceptions for the purpose of intelligence in Year 283, Year 290, and Year 299, and was refused each time. The proposals and the refusals are in the register.
Why this entry is so short
This Archive was put together by the descendants of people who escaped the Dominion as children, or were born to those who did. What is here is the sum of what those children knew and could pass on: a description of the sky, and the sea, and the light going up. Plus one name, learned from strangers two centuries later.
That is not a lapse in the keeping. It is what four hundred years of deliberate avoidance produces, and Vesh Ilketh Openhand’s objection is that we chose it.
Three sources would hold more than we do, and they are named here so the gap reads as a choice rather than as a limit of the world. Any Remnari not of this Enclave, and so not held to the standing order. Any people whose world the Dominion has approached and who lived to say so. And the Dominion.
The standing order forbids the third. It does not forbid the first two, and we have pursued neither.