The world of Hethydect is built on the collision between advanced technology, fractured governments, criminal syndicates, and the vulnerabilities of human memory. Every setting in the novel, from orbital stations to fringe worlds, is designed around emotional pressure, scarcity, and survival.
This page explores the systems that shape the galaxy and the hidden structures behind Trevor’s mission.
The universe of Hethydect is not a united empire. It is a patchwork of:
industrial hubs
colonies on harsh moons
prison-like mining facilities
militarized space police zones
lawless frontier settlements
Governments maintain order only where they have resources. Everywhere else, power belongs to whoever fills the vacuum, often criminal networks, Hethydect suppliers, or desperate local leaders.
This fractured galaxy allows the drug to spread faster than law enforcement can contain it.
Trevor and his crew operate from the T-3, the policing craft used for:
station inspections
drug-interception missions
extraction operations
emergency response
patrol routes across unstable zones
The T-3 reflects its world:
functional, battered, underfunded, and constantly pushed to its limits.
Inside the T-3:
biometric scanning stations detect Hethydect residue
AI-assisted tracking maps dealer networks
tactical corridors support boarding teams
reinforced centers hold detainees until transfer
It is less a ship and more a moving outpost of a stretched thin government.
Hethydect thrives because each world has a different weakness:
Industrial Stations: Workers use it to escape monotony.
Mining Colonies: It becomes currency when wages fail.
Fringe Settlements: It becomes ritualistic, tied to collective memory.
Trade Ports: Dealers hide shipments in constant traffic.
Isolationist Moons: Users rely on it to revisit family they’ll never see again.
The drug evolves into a cultural problem, not just a criminal one.
Hethydect is derived from an early neurological compound designed to treat memory loss.
Instead, it:
overstimulates the hippocampus
turns memory recall into sensory immersion
creates emotional addiction
disrupts temporal perception
scars the brain’s reward circuits
This is why withdrawal is not physical pain, it is emotional collapse.
Behind Hethydect is an organized syndicate with:
interplanetary distribution rings
runners addicted to the product they transport
hidden stations acting as storage hubs
bribed officials
armed enforcers guarding refinery points
Sage rules through two things:
Emotional leverage, he preys on the weak.
Technological secrecy, his refining techniques are untraceable.
His empire is the glue holding together a broken galaxy, and the poison killing it.
One of the unique aspects of Hethydect’s worldbuilding is that emotion is treated as a resource.
Across the novel:
Memory becomes currency.
Emotion becomes the edge criminals exploit.
Trauma becomes the entry point for addiction.
Fear becomes the controlling force behind policing.
This is why the world feels so lived in:
Its physics are grounded in emotional consequences.
Trevor’s home life serves as an anchor to the universe’s instability:
the fear of addiction reaching their household
children growing up in emotionally dangerous environments
marriages strained by constant crisis
The world is not just big, it’s personal.
By the end of the novel, several world building threads point to larger consequences:
Hethydect is evolving into new variants
The policing system is weakening
Fringe worlds are slipping out of control
Syndicates are growing faster than the government
Emotional trauma is becoming the galaxy’s defining crisis
This universe is expanding, and nowhere close to stabilizing.
