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Guides
Use Spcent as an onboarding and workflow layer.
Guides turns vague world ideas into a usable sequence across Worlds, Systems, Spatial, and Studies.
It turns the graph into a workflow.
Frame the region, trace the loop, stress the map, then verify the pattern.
Choose a track or follow the full workflow.
If your focus is clear, pick a track. If not, follow the default workflow below.
World Foundations
8 canonical guide-supporting entries currently sit in the strongest workflow branch.
Cross-Scale
17 canonical guide-supporting entries currently anchor the dominant operating scale.
Continuation Map
Start here when the next move is a workflow.
Use Guides when you need order and outputs before opening more nodes.
Choose sequence before you choose a node.
Start here when you need a staged route, worksheet, or clearer revision order.
Finish each guide slice with a worksheet and a return route.
Use Guides when you need the artifact and next module before you continue.
Step out to the wider graph only when the next object is unclear.
Use Archive when the workflow is no longer enough but search would still be too early.
Program And Scale
Browse workflow support by program branch and operating scale.
Guides now keeps the same program branches and scale lanes visible inside workflow browse, so tracks, audits, and outputs stay aligned with the wider graph.
World Foundations
Explain what the world is materially built from before politics, balance, or style are discussed.
Start in Worlds, read the anchor framework, open one regional model, validate with a complete study, then finish with a world assembly guide pass.
Regional Scale · 5World Scale · 2Cross-Scale · 1
Evolution and Breakdown
Explain transition, disturbance, collapse, recovery, and reassembly across eras and stress cycles.
Start with transformation and failure models, trace residue and recovery paths, compare a collapse or successor-order study, then run a failure-mode review.
Cross-Scale · 5Network Scale · 2
Flow and Logistics
Explain how resources, goods, labor, information, and force circulate, stall, buffer, and break.
Start from the resource-flow loop, trace storage and throughput models, compare one logistics study, then run a flow audit worksheet.
Network Scale · 4Regional Scale · 2Cross-Scale · 1
Show scale lanes
Cross-Scale
Use this scale when the strongest explanation depends on several levels staying visible together.
Regional Scale
Use this scale when the region is the main leverage unit for settlement, extraction, governance, or conflict.
Network Scale
Use this scale when routes, relays, buffers, and linked nodes matter more than territorial bulk.
Urban Scale
Use this scale when city-scale transfer, concentration, or control is doing the main structural work.
Program To Guide Paths
Use Guides as the operating layer for every program branch.
Each program path points to the best current route for turning a branch into a creator-facing pass, worksheet, audit, or comparison sequence.
Program Hero
Flow and Logistics
Explain how resources, goods, labor, information, and force circulate, stall, buffer, and break.
Start from the resource-flow loop, trace storage and throughput models, compare one logistics study, then run a flow audit worksheet.
Network Scale · 15Regional Scale · 5Cross-Scale · 3
SystemsWorldsCross ModuleModelStudyGlossary
Program Hero
Governance and Power
Explain how legitimacy, coercion, administrative reach, frontier bargaining, and elite control are structured.
Start with the pressure map, locate legitimacy and capture mechanisms, validate against a frontier or state case, then run a governance stress test.
Cross-Scale · 11Regional Scale · 9Network Scale · 4
WorldsCross ModuleSystemsFrameworkStudyModel
Program Hero
World Foundations
Explain what the world is materially built from before politics, balance, or style are discussed.
Start in Worlds, read the anchor framework, open one regional model, validate with a complete study, then finish with a world assembly guide pass.
Regional Scale · 14World Scale · 3Network Scale · 2
Cross ModuleWorldsStudyFrameworkModel
Program Hero
Capability Regimes
Explain how technology, magic, infrastructure, communication, and transformation capacity rewrite baseline constraints.
Start with the operating regime, price the capability through diffusion or monopoly models, compare a regime-rewrite case, then run a capability sanity check.
Network Scale · 8Cross-Scale · 6Urban Scale · 3
WorldsSystemsCross ModuleFrameworkStudyModel
Program Hero
Evolution and Breakdown
Explain transition, disturbance, collapse, recovery, and reassembly across eras and stress cycles.
Start with transformation and failure models, trace residue and recovery paths, compare a collapse or successor-order study, then run a failure-mode review.
Cross-Scale · 9Network Scale · 6Regional Scale · 4
Cross ModuleSystemsWorldsFrameworkModelStudy
Program Hero
Urban and Regional Coupling
Explain how cities work as filters, gateways, relays, conversion surfaces, and regional control machines.
Start with the urban logistics surface, step into gateway and throughput models, compare a port or capital study, then run a city-region worksheet.
Urban Scale · 12Cross-Scale · 3District Scale · 2
SpatialWorldsFrameworkStudyModel
Program Hero
Conflict and Operations
Explain campaigns, sustainment, force projection, defensive depth, and operational windows as structural systems.
Start with sustainment and projection models, identify the theater cycle, validate through an operational case, then run an operations stress test.
Regional Scale · 14World Scale · 2
SystemsFrameworkStudyModel
Program Hero
Spatial Structures
Explain how topology, region graphs, corridors, map abstraction, and scale determine movement and leverage.
Start in Spatial, reduce the map into region graph and corridor logic, test topology under disruption, then return through a spatial design guide.
Network Scale · 9Cross-Scale · 4Regional Scale · 2
SpatialWorldsGlossaryStudyModel
Program Hero
Method and Production
Turn all major programs into creator-operable workflows rather than leaving them as analysis-only content.
Start in Guides with the workflow framework, choose the role route, open the supporting program branches only as needed, and leave with a worksheet or review artifact.
Cross-Scale · 4Network Scale · 1
SystemsCross ModuleSpatialModelFramework
Program Next Wave
The next guide-relevant wave is visible for every program.
Guides now also shows what each program still needs next, so workflow design and content production stay aligned.
mature branch
Start in Worlds, read the anchor framework, open one regional model, validate with a complete study, then finish with a world assembly guide pass.
This branch currently has no planned backlog items in the generated queue.
mature branch
Start from the resource-flow loop, trace storage and throughput models, compare one logistics study, then run a flow audit worksheet.
This branch currently has no planned backlog items in the generated queue.
mature branch
Start with the pressure map, locate legitimacy and capture mechanisms, validate against a frontier or state case, then run a governance stress test.
This branch currently has no planned backlog items in the generated queue.
mature branch
Start in Spatial, reduce the map into region graph and corridor logic, test topology under disruption, then return through a spatial design guide.
This branch currently has no planned backlog items in the generated queue.
mature branch
Start with sustainment and projection models, identify the theater cycle, validate through an operational case, then run an operations stress test.
This branch currently has no planned backlog items in the generated queue.
mature branch
Start with the urban logistics surface, step into gateway and throughput models, compare a port or capital study, then run a city-region worksheet.
This branch currently has no planned backlog items in the generated queue.
mature branch
Start with the operating regime, price the capability through diffusion or monopoly models, compare a regime-rewrite case, then run a capability sanity check.
This branch currently has no planned backlog items in the generated queue.
mature branch
Start with transformation and failure models, trace residue and recovery paths, compare a collapse or successor-order study, then run a failure-mode review.
This branch currently has no planned backlog items in the generated queue.
mature branch
Start in Guides with the workflow framework, choose the role route, open the supporting program branches only as needed, and leave with a worksheet or review artifact.
This branch currently has no planned backlog items in the generated queue.
Priority Lanes
Start with a role route or jump straight to the expert continuation.
These lanes map directly to real creator roles: author pass, systems audit, world-lead review, or advanced transformation work.
Advanced Structural Audit
Use this guide when you need a concrete workflow for transformation boundary analysis, cascade propagation, inheritance auditing, and successor-system planning.
AdvancedTransformationCascade
Open Advanced AuditAuthor Structural Pass
Use this guide when the draft has premise and atmosphere, but still needs one reliable structural pass through region, substrate, route, and applied proof.
Author routeCoherence passSetting support
World Constraint StackMaterial Continuity FrameworkMigration Corridor Model
Open Author PassSystems Designer Audit
Use this guide when the question is no longer what systems exist, but whether their loops, chokepoints, and collapse paths are legible enough to design against.
Systems roleLoop auditFailure paths
System Pressure ArchitectureCombat Sustainment LoopRecovery-Collapse Loop
Open Systems AuditWorld Lead Review Cycle
Use this guide when the job is no longer writing one page well, but keeping a larger world program coherent across teams, revisions, and escalating complexity.
Lead routeReview cycleCross-team coherence
Material Continuity FrameworkUrban Logistics Surface FrameworkCity-Region Coupling Model
Open World Lead CycleGuide Library
15 guide pages turn the method into focused entry points.
Use a guide page when the problem is already clear and you want a tighter route.
Guide
Worldbuilding 101
Use this guide when you need a first coherent pass through the world and want to avoid building decorative lore on top of weak physical or material structure.
Starting pointConstraint-firstBeginner-friendly
GuideSystems Thinking
Use this guide when the draft has lots of ingredients but no clear explanation of how they reinforce, balance, or destabilize one another.
LoopsPressureDependency
GuideFlagship Pass
Use this guide when you want one flagship operating path across Worlds, Systems, and Spatial before expanding into narrower branches or adding more case detail.
Flagship routeCross-program spineStructural pass
GuideCity-Region Audit
Use this guide when a capital, harbor, or relay city feels important in premise but still lacks visible buffering, dispatch geometry, and hinterland service logic.
Urban branchCity-region workflowGateway audit
GuideOperations Stress
Use this guide when force can move and fight in premise, but you still cannot explain whether it can stay effective, reopen pressure after disruption, or hold what it reaches.
Operations workflowStress testSustainment
GuideCapability Check
Use this guide when a special capability is starting to reshape the setting, but you still cannot tell whether it is decorative, elite-limited, or truly structural.
Capability workflowSanity checkAccess control
GuideFailure Review
Use this guide when the problem is no longer whether disruption happens, but how it propagates, when buffers fail, and what narrower order remains afterward.
Breakdown workflowFailure reviewThresholds
GuideWorkflow
Use this guide when you need an end-to-end order of operations that ties worlds, substrate continuity, systems, spatial logic, and studies into one repeatable process.
End-to-endSequencingProduction workflow
GuideConsistency
Use this guide when the setting is rich enough to feel convincing in fragments but not yet coherent as a whole.
AlignmentCross-checkingRevision
GuideSpatial Design
Use this guide when your map is readable as artwork but not yet readable as structure, especially once decisive cities still feel like abstract points.
AdjacencyChokepointsGateway districts
GuideWeak World Diagnosis
Use this guide when the world feels broad on the surface yet still lacks a clear repair target in constraints, flow, node hierarchy, or applied proof.
AuditRevision targetWeak layer
GuideAdvanced Audit
Use this guide when you need a concrete workflow for transformation boundary analysis, cascade propagation, inheritance auditing, and successor-system planning.
AdvancedTransformationCascade
GuideAuthor Pass
Use this guide when the draft has premise and atmosphere, but still needs one reliable structural pass through region, substrate, route, and applied proof.
Author routeCoherence passSetting support
GuideSystems Audit
Use this guide when the question is no longer what systems exist, but whether their loops, chokepoints, and collapse paths are legible enough to design against.
Systems roleLoop auditFailure paths
GuideWorld Lead Cycle
Use this guide when the job is no longer writing one page well, but keeping a larger world program coherent across teams, revisions, and escalating complexity.
Lead routeReview cycleCross-team coherence
Role Routes
Choose the route that matches your responsibility, not only your module.
These role guides stay available as dedicated shelves for authors, systems designers, and world leads.
Author Structural Pass
Use this guide when the draft has premise and atmosphere, but still needs one reliable structural pass through region, substrate, route, and applied proof.
Author routeCoherence passSetting support
World Constraint StackMaterial Continuity FrameworkMigration Corridor Model
Open Author PassSystems Designer Audit
Use this guide when the question is no longer what systems exist, but whether their loops, chokepoints, and collapse paths are legible enough to design against.
Systems roleLoop auditFailure paths
System Pressure ArchitectureCombat Sustainment LoopRecovery-Collapse Loop
Open Systems AuditWorld Lead Review Cycle
Use this guide when the job is no longer writing one page well, but keeping a larger world program coherent across teams, revisions, and escalating complexity.
Lead routeReview cycleCross-team coherence
Material Continuity FrameworkUrban Logistics Surface FrameworkCity-Region Coupling Model
Open World Lead CycleModule Tracks
Three guided lanes map to the core product modules.
Each lane is already structured as a multi-stage path. Pick the lane before diving deeper.
Start from terrain, settlement, surplus, and civilizational pressure so the world has structural coherence before detail expands.
Primary output: worlds/region-constraint-worksheet.md. Take the output back into terrain, settlement, corridor, and regional structure once the workflow exposes a weak world layer.
World Constraint StackRegional Systems Matrix
Return to WorldsTrace loops, surplus capture, institutional pressure, and disruption so the world behaves like a system rather than a list of mechanics.
Primary output: systems/surplus-flow-worksheet.md. Use the output to revise flow, capture, escalation, and institutional pressure instead of widening the setting surface.
System Pressure ArchitectureResource Flow Loop
Return to SystemsAbstract maps into nodes, corridors, and stress scenarios so movement and leverage become legible before visual polish.
Primary output: spatial/spatial-stress-worksheet.md. Use the output to test route hierarchy, chokepoints, rerouting, and exposure before polishing representation.
Multi-Layer Mobility FrameworkRegion Graph
Return to SpatialComparison Lenses
Jump from a role route into the right comparison shelf.
These clusters keep the main comparison programs visible without widening into the full Archive.
Use this cluster when the comparison lens is harbor clearance, corridor hardening, strait control, and the urban surfaces that convert sea movement into political leverage.
HarborsStraitsThroughput
Maritime Chokepoint NetworkVenice Maritime Corridor SystemMing Canal Logistics System
Use this cluster when the comparison lens is rupture, inherited infrastructure, residue management, and the smaller successor geometries that still function after system breakdown.
TransformationCascadeResidue
Historical Transformation FrameworkFailure CascadeResilience Threshold
Use this cluster when the comparison lens is food, water, ecological buffering, reserve behavior, and the institutions that turn material continuity into long-run state capacity.
SubstrateReservesEcology shock
Material Continuity FrameworkFood Energy Base ModelHydrology Settlement Coupling
Use this cluster when the comparison lens is gateway districts, service radius, regional coupling, and the city-scale surfaces that make one node governable.
Gateway districtsService radiusUrban surfaces
Urban Logistics Surface FrameworkGateway District StackHinterland Service Radius
Use this cluster when the comparison lens is how technology or magic becomes reproducible, monopolized, licensed, or infrastructural enough to rewrite governance and movement.
DiffusionMonopolyOperators
Technology Diffusion RegimeMagic Operating RegimeMagic Monopoly Structure
Use this cluster when the comparison lens is campaign reach, reserve timing, fortified delay, and the system cost of keeping force effective across distance.
Campaign reachReservesRelief timing
Force Projection WindowCombat Sustainment LoopStrategic Reserve Network
Use this cluster when the comparison lens is gated growth, theater expansion, balancing drag, and the point where strategic scale starts rewriting the whole system.
ProgressionSLGEscalation
Progression Gate GraphStrategic Theater CycleReinforcement-Balancing Pair
Use this cluster when the comparison lens is corridor-backed legitimacy, coalition bargaining, polycentric stability, and the point where a workable order starts slipping into negotiated drift.
LegitimacyCorridorsCoalitions
Legitimacy-Capture CouplingAlliance Fracture ModelPolycentric Empire Stability Model
Use this cluster when the comparison lens is circulation fragility, industrial conversion, trade concentration, and the throughput surfaces that turn raw material into strategic leverage.
ConversionThroughputTrade hubs
Circulation Fragility IndexIndustrial Conversion ChainSong Dynasty River Commerce System
Use this cluster when the comparison lens is compounding pressure, delayed relief, recovery burden, and the point where balancing drag becomes visible only after the system is already under strain.
ReinforcementDelayRecovery
Reinforcement-Balancing PairRecovery-Collapse LoopFrostpunk Thermal Governance System
Use this cluster when the comparison lens is pressure accumulation, institutional residue, imperial narrowing, and the successor patterns that make one era feel materially different from the one before it.
TransitionsResidueFragmentation
Historical Transformation FrameworkEra Pressure TransitionInstitutional Residue Map
Material Lane
Guides now exposes the new substrate and capability shelf directly.
Use this lane when the weak point is substrate, infrastructure, or life-support burden.
framework
Material Continuity Framework
A framework for reading how food, water, health, and maintenance cycles must keep reproducing beneath settlement, surplus, and political order.
resourcessystemsevolution
modelInfrastructure Footprint Model
A model for reading how roads, grids, canals, wards, depots, and maintenance corridors spread capability by enlarging the physical footprint a society must keep repaired.
systemsresourcesgeography
studyNile Flood Basin State
A historical study of how flood timing, basin irrigation, grain storage, and hydraulic maintenance let a river civilization turn annual renewal into durable state capacity.
geographyresourcescivilization
studyRed Mars Life Support Governance
A fiction study of how life support, industrial buildout, habitat maintenance, and territorial expansion turn Red Mars into a governance problem before it becomes a mature civilization.
systemsresourcesevolution
Outputs And Return Paths
Choose the artifact you want to leave with.
These routes make the output and next module visible before you open the full workflow.
worlds/region-constraint-worksheet.md
Use this when the setting still feels like named places without clear density logic or terrain-driven structure.
Take the output back into terrain, settlement, corridor, and regional structure once the workflow exposes a weak world layer.
Workflow outputWorlds
Return to Worldssystems/surplus-flow-worksheet.md
Use this when prosperity, scarcity, or authority in the draft world still depend on vague abundance rather than traceable flow.
Use the output to revise flow, capture, escalation, and institutional pressure instead of widening the setting surface.
Workflow outputSystems
Return to Systemsspatial/spatial-stress-worksheet.md
Use this when the map looks readable but you still cannot explain which routes matter or how disruption changes behavior.
Use the output to test route hierarchy, chokepoints, rerouting, and exposure before polishing representation.
Workflow outputSpatial
Return to Spatialstudies/applied-review-worksheet.md
Use this when the models look coherent in isolation but you need to test whether they survive contact with a complete setting.
Use the output to verify the workflow inside one complete case before you add more detail or open more nodes.
Workflow outputStudies
Return to Studiesadvanced/transformation-boundary-audit.md
Use this when your world or system question is about era change, systemic break, or successor-order formation rather than baseline coherence.
If the rupture still reads like a vague event list, stay here. If you can name continuity, rupture, and inheritance clearly, move into cascade or rewrite analysis.
Workflow outputFrameworks
Continue in Frameworksadvanced/cascade-propagation-map.md
Use this when local disruption is visibly changing the wider network and you need to model propagation rather than isolated stress.
If the failure still looks local, return to topology stress. If it now propagates structurally, move into reassembly or rewrite planning.
Workflow outputModels
Continue in Modelsadvanced/inheritance-and-rewrite-audit.md
Use this when collapse or succession has left enough residue that the main question is selective inheritance rather than total destruction.
If inheritance still feels too broad, return to transformation audit. If rewrite needs are clear, move into the reassembly plan.
Workflow outputModels
Continue in Modelsadvanced/successor-reassembly-plan.md
Use this when the old order has already narrowed enough that the design problem is now coherent reassembly, not complete restoration.
Return to the weakest module in your draft and deepen the successor order there instead of reopening the entire old system at once.
Workflow outputGuides
Continue in GuidesTemplate Library
Jump directly to a worksheet output.
Use this when you want the worksheet first.
Open worksheet template library
Region Constraint Worksheet
Use this when the setting still feels like named places without clear density logic or terrain-driven structure.
Workflow templateContinue in Worlds
Surplus Flow WorksheetUse this when prosperity, scarcity, or authority in the draft world still depend on vague abundance rather than traceable flow.
Workflow templateContinue in Systems
Spatial Stress WorksheetUse this when the map looks readable but you still cannot explain which routes matter or how disruption changes behavior.
Workflow templateContinue in Spatial
Applied Review WorksheetUse this when the models look coherent in isolation but you need to test whether they survive contact with a complete setting.
Workflow templateContinue in Studies
Transformation Boundary AuditUse this when your world or system question is about era change, systemic break, or successor-order formation rather than baseline coherence.
Workflow templateContinue in Frameworks
Cascade Propagation MapUse this when local disruption is visibly changing the wider network and you need to model propagation rather than isolated stress.
Workflow templateContinue in Models
Inheritance And Rewrite AuditUse this when collapse or succession has left enough residue that the main question is selective inheritance rather than total destruction.
Workflow templateContinue in Models
Successor Reassembly PlanUse this when the old order has already narrowed enough that the design problem is now coherent reassembly, not complete restoration.
Workflow templateContinue in Guides
Onboarding Workflow
One sequence ties the three module paths together.
This is the default path for a new user. Keep the current step in focus instead of reading all four at once.
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Workflow Step
Step 1: Frame the world as regions under constraint
Begin with regional structure and terrain gradients. This is the fastest way to replace vague geography with a legible field of density, movement, and settlement potential.
Outcome
You have a structural map of where density can accumulate and why.
Use this when the setting still feels like named places without clear density logic or terrain-driven structure.
You can point to a core zone, a corridor belt, and at least one hard constraint zone without relying on lore names alone.
- Mark the main terrain barriers, basins, coasts, rivers, or passes that structure movement.
- Place the first settlement-density gradient from core zone to edge zone.
- Write one sentence for why each major region can or cannot sustain dense settlement.
If your regions still read like labels on a map, stay in this step. If they read like constraint fields, move into resource flow.
World Foundations currently leads this step with 4 supporting entries.
World Foundations · 4
Regional Scale currently anchors this step with 2 supporting entries.
Regional Scale · 2World Scale · 2
Region Constraint Worksheet
Core Zone: - Name: - Why density holds here: Corridor Belt: - Main route: - What keeps movement reliable: Edge Zone: - Main constraint: - Why density thins out here: Hard Constraint Zone: - Terrain barrier: - What becomes expensive or impossible here:
framework
5 constraint layers
World Constraint Stack
A framework for reading a world from climate rhythm, terrain friction, habitability, circulation, and settlement thresholds before higher-order institutions are added.
WorldsWorld FoundationsWorldgeographyresourcesevolution
framework
Featured4 structural layers
Regional Systems Matrix
A planning frame for mapping how geography, settlement, resources, and transit form a region's structural identity.
WorldsWorld FoundationsRegionalgeographyresourcessystems
framework
4 density bands
Terrain Settlement Gradient
A framework for reading how terrain friction and access gradients shape where settlement density can sustainably accumulate.
WorldsWorld FoundationsRegionalgeographycivilizationresources
model
4 recurring windows
Climate Rhythm Model
A model for how repeating weather and seasonal windows structure labor, harvest timing, travel reliability, and crisis pacing across a world.
WorldsWorld FoundationsWorldgeographyresourcesevolution
Cross-layer Handoff
Continue from process into case reading or graph browse.
Keep two next layers visible: Studies for case validation, Archive for wider graph orientation.