The Mud Map

Fractal Space

A critique of space warfare, written after watching the films get it wrong — where the shooting is the easy part and the logistics are the tragedy.

The book

Jacket copy, the opening excerpt, and buy links land here. The book is the front door; the game is the second room.

The chart

Fractal Space stands on Galactic Map, the chart shared across The Fractal Space Trilogy.

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The game

Layered Defense

You do not lose because your interceptors miss. You lose because you run out of them — magazine depth beats engagement envelope, and saturation is arithmetic.

Under five minutes to first failure. The lesson lives in the loss condition, and a closing card states what the model simplified.

Field notes

The research under the fiction, with its sources shown.

Also in The Fractal Space Trilogy

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