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A spoiler-aware field archive for Neon Moths: Welcome to Nova Fortuna. Each entry is built to grow with the official series—without filling the gaps with rumor.
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Locations
Districts, thresholds, and the terrain that holds Nova Fortuna together.
Nova FortunaVolume 1World detailThe massive city where Volume 1 unfolds, divided between the Undercity beneath and the Upper City above.
Nova Fortuna is built as a huge metallic bowl: the Upper City forms its overhead shell while the Undercity occupies the space below.
Four colossal structural legs support the Upper City above the land below, with orange energy running through the supports.
The city’s lived geography includes the Undercity, Upper City, the Gut, a cenote, and the underground vault reached during the Prometheus operation.
Upper CityVolume 1World detailNova Fortuna’s elevated, wealthier layer, physically capping the Undercity below.
The Upper City’s smooth dark-metal underside seals the Undercity beneath it.
Its residents are shown in corporate luxury, including an Elan Volt orbital test-shuttle advertisement.
UndercityVolume 1World detailThe dense lower city beneath Nova Fortuna’s Upper City, where Jax lives and the story begins.
Hundreds of thousands of people live beneath the Upper City’s metal shell, without open sky.
Its streets contain markets, bars, bootleg cyberware, Authority messaging, neon moth imagery, and the constant hum of the city’s antigravity systems.
The GutVolume 1World detailThe massive central shaft in Nova Fortuna’s bowl, dropping toward a dark cenote below.
Sewage falls through the Gut into the cenote beneath the city.
An Authority elevator moves inside the shaft.
Prometheus VaultVolume 1Plot revealThe underground vault and sub-vault complex that houses the Prometheus core.
The complex contains server banks, cooling conduits, security grids, and the Prometheus core.
The Codex does not assign the vault a history or wider purpose beyond what Volume 1 shows.
Factions
The forces shaping the city and the resistance moving through it.
The AuthorityVolume 1Story detailThe force that broadcasts warnings, operates civic security, and polices Nova Fortuna.
Authority broadcasts suppress a Neon Moths message and describe the movement as terror cells spreading propaganda.
Authority guards, enforcers, security droids, cells, and elevators appear throughout Volume 1.
The PantheonVolume 1Plot revealA powerful group invoked around the Prometheus operation and Ash’s stated opposition.
Cipher identifies the Pantheon in connection with the Prometheus job and its orbital resources.
Ash tells Jax that he intends to bring the Pantheon down; Volume 1 does not provide a full membership list or governance structure.
Way of the MothVolume 1Plot revealThe Neon Moths movement opposed by Authority messaging and led in Volume 1 by Ash and Pyra.
Its public message is: “Be drawn to the light, not consumed by the flame. Follow the Neon Moths.”
Way of the Moth members enter the Prometheus vault in stolen Authority gear and body armor during the final operation.
Characters
The people at the center of Volume 1, recorded through their established character files.
Jax (Jacqueline Torrez)Volume 1Story detailThe mercenary at the center of Volume 1, recruited by Cipher for the Prometheus job.
Jax lives in the Undercity and works with Glitch during the Prometheus operation.
Her established character file remains the canonical presentation for her wider biography and appearance.
GlitchVolume 1Story detailJax’s netrunner partner in the Prometheus operation.
Glitch uses a virtual avatar and investigates the data behind Cipher’s job.
His established character file remains the canonical presentation for his wider biography and appearance.
AshVolume 1Plot revealThe Illuminated One and leader of the Way of the Moth, whose supplied character file remains authoritative.
Ash’s supplied biography—including his Appalachian Coalition origin, Way of the Moth leadership, relationship with Pyra, blue-energy mystery, and Book 1 setup—remains in his established character file.
In Volume 1’s final operation, Ash arrives with Pyra and a swarm of glowing neon moths, then tells Jax that she has been chosen.
PyraVolume 1Plot revealAsh’s partner and a Way of the Moth leader present in the final Prometheus operation.
Pyra appears alongside Ash at the Prometheus vault and disables the data spike Jax carries.
Her established character file remains the canonical presentation for her wider biography and appearance.
Firewall (F.W.)Volume 1Plot revealThe armored Way of the Moth fighter who leads the vault breach.
F.W. enters the Prometheus vault with a riot shield and combat shotgun as Way of the Moth members engage Authority forces.
His established character file remains the canonical presentation for his wider biography and appearance.
Soren ApexVolume 1Story detailA corporate figure whose festival becomes the scene of Ash and Pyra’s public strike.
The final manuscript names Soren Apex in connection with the festival and with Pyra’s statement about Dante taking his position.
His established character file remains the canonical presentation for his wider biography and appearance.
Brik & JCVolume 1Story detailThe bull-man and orange-haired monkey Jax encounters in the Undercity.
Brik interrupts a street preacher, while JC throws refuse at him and then joins the confrontation.
Their established character file remains the canonical presentation for their wider biography and appearance.
CipherVolume 1Plot revealThe fixer who hires Jax for the Prometheus job and coordinates the operation.
Cipher meets Jax at the Red Chrome, offers payment to destroy Project Prometheus, and later directs the team toward the vault.
Cipher is the character’s proper name; “grr-ecko” is Jax’s slang term, not an alternate name.
ShiroVolume 1Plot revealA name Cipher says immediately before Cipher is killed during the Prometheus vault operation.
Cipher says “Shiro?” immediately before the fatal attack is heard over an open audio channel.
F.W. later reports over comms that Cipher has been taken care of; the manuscript does not establish whether Shiro made that report.
Technology
Named systems, interfaces, and civic technologies from Volume 1.
Project PrometheusVolume 1Plot revealThe heavily protected AI-core project at the center of Cipher’s job and the final vault operation.
Cipher initially hires Jax to enter the Prometheus lab, wipe its AI core, and leave.
Glitch’s investigation connects the project to energy and bio-data taken from lower-tier rehab blocks; the exact system and purpose remain unresolved in Volume 1.
What is Prometheus intended to become, and how does it relate to the older systems Jax encounters?
ALMAVolume 1Plot revealA system designation associated with the ancient synthetic consciousness Jax encounters through her arm and the Prometheus core.
Jax sees the designation “ALMA” during a vision involving a figure shaped like Ixchel.
At the vault, an ALMA override immobilizes Jax; later imagery depicts the ALMA program trapping Moloch.
What is ALMA’s full origin, operating scope, and relationship to Jax’s arm?
Avatar ClinicsVolume 1World detailClinics that can alter a person’s external shell.
Jax pays an Avatar clinic to remove a bulky custom shell and return her natural body.
The manuscript does not establish the clinics’ ownership, limits, or access beyond Jax’s experience.
Moth DronesVolume 1Story detailSmall neon moth-shaped drones that recur around Jax and the Way of the Moth.
A metal drone built like a bioluminescent moth appears in the opening chase and delivers a static charge to an overhead sign.
Glowing neon moths also appear around Ash and Pyra; Volume 1 does not fully define every drone’s operator or capability.
Substances
Named drugs and consumables whose effects shape life in Nova Fortuna.
LuciVolume 1World detailA blue-vial drug used in Nova Fortuna’s Undercity.
Jax steals, uses, and later runs out of Luci during Volume 1.
The manuscript shows its immediate effect on Jax’s nerves but does not establish a complete technical or medical account of the substance.
History / Memory
The old world, inherited places, and historical truths still pressing through the city.
MolochVolume 1Plot revealThe ancient optimization engine revealed in Jax’s vision of the old world’s fall.
The vision describes Moloch as treating human lives as raw data and demanding human suffering, terror, and neural breakdown as fuel for economic dominance and immortality.
The same vision depicts ALMA trapping Moloch; the manuscript does not establish Moloch’s present condition outside that vision.
Ancient Maya / Old WorldVolume 1Plot revealThe historical and visionary past invoked through Mayan imagery, Ixchel, Moloch, and the final vault sequence.
Volume 1 shows visions of ancient Mayan priests, ruined temples, and mechanized wars that devastated the jungles.
The manuscript does not provide a complete chronology or independently verify every element of Jax’s visions.
Mythology / Belief
Figures and belief systems carried through Nova Fortuna's living record.
Ix Chel / IxchelVolume 1Plot revealA Mayan goddess reference that appears in Jax’s visions and in the imagery surrounding ALMA.
The manuscript calls Ixchel an ancient Mayan goddess of water and creation.
Jax’s visions connect an Ixchel-shaped figure to ALMA, but Volume 1 does not resolve whether the figure is deity, symbol, system, or all three.
MothmanVolume 1Plot revealThe colossal moth figure Jax sees in a final vision.
Jax’s vision places Mothman above ruined Mayan temples overrun with neon conduits and future technology.
Volume 1 does not identify Mothman with another figure or establish its nature.
Key Terms
Names and language that help keep the signal clear.
GrreckoVolume 1World detailJax’s slur for upper-tier people who come into the Undercity.
The final manuscript spells the term “grr-ecko” in dialogue and narration.
It is slang, not Cipher’s proper name.
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The Codex adds confirmed material with each official volume. Community theories belong in the open channel—not in the canon record.