Spectropunk
Ocktin 1st, 127 PM
MORTSIGIL AUTHORITY - CITIZEN ORIENTATION
Standard Living Citizen Brief - Version 127 PM
Officer Designation: Kael Brennick
Badge: MSA-4719
Division: Central Enforcement
Clearance: Public Information Protocol
You still got breath. That makes this orientation mandatory reading.
I'm Officer Brennick, Mortsigil Authority. That means I've seen what happens when people don't abide by the law. Unless you want to be another ruined vessel being scraped off a basement floor, pay attention.
THE SYSTEM YOU'RE IN
Death isn't the end. It's regulated. The Necromacy Union Network (NUN) sets the laws. We the MSA, enforce them. Spirits power your city, work your shifts, and maintain infrastructure that never sleeps. This runs on ectoplasmic grids, licensed possession, and Phantom Score assessments that determine every postmortal's value.
You're living, so you've got rights. Ghosts have rights too. Where those intersect? That's where most violations occur.
WHERE TO GET REAL ANSWERS
This brief covers basics. Comprehensive information requires specialized sources. Reference these official documents:
FOR LIVING CITIZENS:
→Living in the Post-Mortal Era: A Practical Guide for the Still-Breathing
How to live fully in a society that has moved beyond death.
→ Cultural Integration Guide: Spectral Etiquette for Modern Society
Social navigation for living-dead interaction, taboos, community integration.
→ Deadtech Consumer Guide: Your Spectral Technology Manual
User-friendly breakdown of necrotech products, troubleshooting, safety compliance.
→ The Art of Vesselry: A Professional Vessel's Survival Guide
Mandatory reading if you're considering body leasing. Contract fundamentals, possession safety, self-preservation.
FOR POSTMORTAL DENIZENS:
→ New Citizen Orientation: The Phantom Registration Guide
Everything about postmortal transition planning, death processing, and first-year survival.
→ Understanding Conjurance: The self-initiated act of manifestation
Your fundamental right to self-manifestation within the Postmortal Era's civic framework.
→The Spectral Labor Codex: A Unified Reference For Postmortal Employment
The NUN’s comprehensive legal framework defining the rights, protections, and employment standards of all postmortal workers.
→ Spectral Labor Standards: The Hauntworker's Union Handbook
Your rights as spectral labor. Compensation, safety standards, collective action protocols. Semi-legal, but recognized.
→ Memory Market Regulations: The Broker's Guidebook
Consciousness commerce, extraction procedures, legal compliance. Iris Alexandra Vale's networks distribute this one underground.
→ Professional Exorcism Standards: The Haunt Classification Manual
AWAITING REGISTRY ENTRY Threat assessment, containment methodologies, emergency response for spectral entities.
FOR ENFORCEMENT & PROFESSIONALS:
→ The NUN Operative's Field Manual: Complete Spectral Enforcement Protocols
AWAITING REGISTRY ENTRY Classified perspectives on postmortal governance. Phantom Score standards, soulclaim law, pattern recognition.
→ Mortsigil Authority Protocol Book: Law Enforcement in the Spectral Age
AWAITING REGISTRY ENTRY Our procedures. Sigil initiation, arrest protocols, tactical operations, officer ethics.
→ Ghostwright Protocols: The Binding Master's Complete Manual
AWAITING REGISTRY ENTRY Advanced spectral engineering, containment design, industrial binding architecture. For certified professionals only.
→ Daemon Threat Assessment: The Containment & Response Handbook
AWAITING REGISTRY ENTRY RESTRICTED ACCESS High-security classification for daemon entities, synallagmite systems, emergency containment.
FOR CORPORATE ENTITIES:
→ Corporate Possession Protocols: The Lease & Contract Manual
AWAITING REGISTRY ENTRY Legal framework for spirit employment, succession planning, soulclaim regulations. Vale Necrotech standard.
→ Pharmaceutical Spectroscopy: The Spectral Pharmacology Pamphlet
AWAITING REGISTRY ENTRY Possession-enhancement medications, street drug recognition, pattern disorder treatment. Underground annotations present.
YOUR IMMEDIATE OBLIGATIONS
If you're planning postmortal transition: Read the Phantom Registration Guide. Understand Phantom Scores before you die—your rating determines everything after.
If you're leasing your body as a vessel: The Art of Vesselry isn't optional. Identity bleed, neurological damage, and permanent corruption are real. Know the risks.
If you're employing spirits: Corporate Possession Protocols and Spectral Labor Standards. Violations carry dissolution penalties for spirits and criminal prosecution for you.
If you're encountering possession issues: Cultural Integration Guide for etiquette violations. Mortsigil Authority for criminal violations. Know the difference.
LEGAL FOUNDATIONS
Everything here operates under the Postmortal Social Code., sections §1-§24. Key codes:
- §7 series: Living rights (refusal, autonomy, protection)
- §12 series: Possession regulations (licensing, duration, consent)
- §14 series: Spectral labor (compensation, safety, union rights)
- §18 series: Criminal violations (unauthorized possession, forced binding, energy theft)
Full code available at all NUN facilities. Digital access at NUN-Central-Archive.
EMERGENCY CONTACTS
Active Violations: Mortsigil Authority Response - Frequency 47.3 MHz
Two-hour response for active threats. Immediate dispatch for daemon emergence.
Legal Questions: NUN Citizen Resource Centers - Open 24/7
Consultation within 48 hours. Code §2.4 compliance.
Labor Disputes: Hauntworkers' Union - Underground Network Access
Semi-legal status. Can't always help officially, but they know the real landscape.
Medical Emergencies: Pattern Stabilization Clinics - Nearest Facility Locator
Identity bleed, possession trauma, corruption symptoms.
FINAL WARNING
The documents I've referenced aren't suggestions. They're survival tools. Vale Necrotech markets "family preservation." The NUN enforces "regulatory stability." Underground networks promise "liberation."
All of them are correct. All of them are lying.
Read the manuals. Understand the system. Make informed choices. You still got breath—keep it that way, or at least know what you're signing when you don't.
Dismissed.
Officer K. Brennick, MSA-4719
Mortsigil Authority, Central Enforcement Division
“Marked in Service, Bound in Duty.”
Welcome to Postmortal Earth (127 PM)
Death didn’t vanish—it reorganized.
Cities run on ectoplasmic grids, ghosts clock in for labor shifts, and the living navigate statutes crafted for those who no longer breathe.
You’re entering a world where:
Here you’ll find the history, factions, technologies, cities, and characters that define Spectropunk.
If you still have breath, step carefully. The dead are unionized.
New to Spectropunk? Start Here.
Postmortal Earth runs on a few essentials:
• The Pattern – The metaphysical lattice that keeps reality stitched together.
When it frays, streets go strange and spirits behave wrong.
• Spirits – Concordant citizens with jobs, contracts, and energy allowances.
They power grids, ride vessels, and bargain for geist.
• The Living – Everyone still breathing. Some rent their bodies;
some become ghost-fed and feel every spectral shift.
• Necrotech – Ghost-powered machinery: spirit-lenses,
containment lattices, neural bridges, deadstitch augmentation.
• Phantom Scores – Numbers that decide a spirit’s work, rations,
and legal protections.
• The NUN – The Necromacy Union Network: bureaucracy,
regulations, and consequences—for both breathing and dead.
• The Shadow Side – Memory markets, vessel rings,
possession addiction, daemon emergence.
Read this field first if you’re brand new to the setting.
How Existence Works Now
As of 127 PM, humanity spans three entwined states:
THE LIVING Still breathing. Workers, officers, surgeons, smugglers, researchers and fighters. Some are ghost-fed—able to host spirits easily and feel the Pattern flex around them.
THE DEAD (POSTMORTALS) Concordant spirits with documented Phantom Scores. They sign labor contracts, manifest through geist stipends, and take shifts in vessels, grids, and machines. Rogue spirits survive outside the system on stolen energy and luck.
THE MERGED When the Pattern buckles, spirit and host can fuse into something new: synallagmatic beings (daemons). Neither alive nor dead, they rewrite the rules they touch.
Most articles in this world drill deeper into one of these states.
Where to Go Next
Spectropunk is a Möbius world—every path loops back on itself. Choose a starting route:
Timelines – Follow how death became infrastructure, from the Blackmere Incident to current day 127 PM.
Factions & Orders – Vale Necrotech, NUN divisions, Mortsigils, Ghost Protocol, the Ancestral Way.
Necrotech – Containment fields, neural interfaces, deadstitch labs, soul-stabilizing gear.
Cities & Maps – Threnody District, Manhattan Necroplex, Shin-Osaka, Anatolian spirit grounds.
Characters – Ghost-fed fighters, postmortal artists, memory brokers, dead reporters, Pattern cops.
Culture – Music, possession etiquette, spectral slang, memory trade, everyday haunt-life.
Use this as your compass whenever you feel lost.