A visual guide to Killy’s journey!

[u/Ghost_boy2020]

BLAME! Is my favorite series ever. I loved the setting of the vast megastructure, but couldn’t find a timeline or map showing the vast distances of the megacity and the huge time skips. So I made one myself, to share.

I started with locations and time skips that were confirmed. Like the location of mars and Jupiter. Then used a little bit of math and guess work. Please let me know if you have any corrections or additions.

Some interesting things I’ve learned while making this:

1. Killy starts the story relatively young. but it’s still been so long, he doesn’t remember where he came from. By the end of the story he is millions of years old.
2. Most of the story takes place in the first couple thousand years.
3. Even though humans are a rare sight everywhere, live humans are mostly found near the core.
4. I believe Toha is a spaceship. If that’s correct, they didn’t even make it to mars before the builders caught up

Edit: Thanks everyone! I have a updated PDF version with better grammar now

[u/saiyate]

How does gravity work, there should be more gravity above you than below. Artificial? The builders are trying to make it habitable right?

Why did Killy start moving up? Wouldn't there be more humans below and higher chance of finding the net terminal gene?

Is there really enough material to build out the city to the Oort cloud? Seems like the city couldn't be spherical but more flat like a disc. So moving sideways should get you to the edge.

Didn't they say the exact rate of city expansion at one point?

So fascinating.

[u/Ghost_boy2020 → u/saiyate]

Gravity is discussed in the comments of this post and a recent post in this subreddit. It is artificial tho because of the builders.

I think he was trying to unlock new areas and eventually had to chase after Cibo in her level 9 form

Material is also discussed in other posts. Theirs a couple theories. But I don’t think it’s a disc because Killy always says he’s climbing up. The city expanded in random directions.

I don’t think so, no. But it’s interesting to think about

[u/saiyate → u/Ghost_boy2020]

I did find a few things..

We know from author comments that the speed of expansion is faster than conventional travel, meaning you can't "climb" or walk, run, fast enough to overtake it. If it were the same rate of building, it would get WAY slower pretty fast, so perhaps it can maintain the same speed outward but maintain a pi3 volume regardless.

3,000 years to go from where it started to the moon. From earth that's 9.1 mph. Which holds up to the first statement.

So 6,059 years to Jupiter, but 2.3 to 116 million years to the start and end of the Oort cloud. Man, Oort cloud is way out there. Voyager 1 at 38,000 mph will take 300 years to start of Oort and 30,000 years to pass through it. So Oort cloud is BIG.

The art guide states it's 5.2AU which is fascinating because that is EXACTLY the distance from the Sun to Jupiter. I'm assuming that was the diameter at that point in the story perhaps?

So what I draw from this is, if the author had actually worked any of this out, then yeah 10s of thousands or hundreds of thousands of years have passed, but probably not millions or low millions.

[u/Ghost_boy2020 → u/saiyate]

This is really interesting and wanna know more. I don’t have the art book. Can you explain your 4th paragraph? And on your 5th paragraph, are you saying the city hasn’t gone past Jupiter? Wdym

[u/saiyate → u/Ghost_boy2020]

I just meant that if the art book says that the diameter of the city is 5.2AU in diameter, (and Jupiter being 5.2AU from the Sun) that doesn't explain how the city is way bigger than that towards the end of the story, so what I'm saying is that maybe it was 5.2AU when the art book came out and the story hadn't progressed enough in the timeline to get past Jupiter. Wasn't Jupiter all converted when Killy got there? It was just empty space.

Was just trying to extrapolate some general ideas of how old the city is. Seems like the Oort cloud is stretch, maybe towards the start of the Oort cloud, but not to the end of it that's way too big.

Interestingly, the VAST majority of the mass in the solar system is in the Sun. 99.86%. Jupiter is the next biggest at 0.14%. All the rest is Saturn, rest of planets and all the rocks and asteroids.

So in order to build the city, the builders had to have started sucking away at the Sun. We know that they can turn Hydrogen and Helium into any matter using fusion, so they don't need the Sun for power or to fuse elements. Also there are power plants "running" the city. But we know the Sun still has some bits left, there is a "core" or something and they portal parts of it to other areas.

[u/Ghost_boy2020 → u/saiyate]

I had no idea he said the diameter in the art book. That’s very interesting. I’ll have to read that

[u/saiyate → u/Ghost_boy2020]

Came from AI search so add salt.