So I made a little map of my setting so I could keep track of things, and thought it looked quite cool so I thought I'd post it. It was just made in [draw.io](http://draw.io) because I couldn't find a good star system diagram maker that I liked.

The basic idea is that the orbital plane of both systems is filled with aetheric energy. Humanity live on a series of giant space stations known as spires (placeholder name for now), and traverse space on starships that sail on the aetheric current.

Humanity arrived in the system through a wormhole from Sol (there's no artificial FTL in this setting, which was my motivation for using a binary star system), but then got trapped when the wormhole collapsed in an event called the Cataclysm that also destroyed the vast majority of non-aetheric technology. The modern day in the story is 972 AC (after the cataclysm), and the times before have faded into myth.

Socially, the setting is vaguely regency era England. The non-aetheric technology is late 19th, early 20th century with a few notable differences (neither gunpowder nor the internal combustion engine exist as aetheric technology make both pointless). Humanity is vaguely aware that it came from another star system, but details are fuzzy and poorly distributed.

The general aesthetic is steampunk, with orikalkum (a sort of bronze metal) being the leading material for ship and star station building. Everything is studded with aetheric crystals that are used for just about everything.

A map of the setting of my steampunk sci fi stories