Chaos Front Centersea Sector Map

The Centersea Sector is the operational board of Chaos Front. Combat happens on a hex grid. The war happens here: connected nodes, timed story pings, industrial Wait, and Mission Centers that pay gold and reputation. If you only fight the tutorial, you will never see why 30/12/C.E.29 exists. Pair this page with missions and the ending checklist.

The mid-article video is a real no-commentary demo session. Use it to see how the map and first fights look, not as a planet encyclopedia. The demo is Lycurgus prologue only. Retail Hongyu and late faction maps are larger.

How the graph works

You move along connected sites. Click a linked planet or industrial base. ESC opens Manage. Wait spends time on purpose. Footer text on store shots is blunt: click sites to move, ESC for Manage. That is the whole campaign language.

You cannot teleport across unlinked nodes. Sightseeing every name on night one is how captains burn C.E.26 for nothing. Take a Mission Center first. Then follow timed banners. Then decide whether a faction battle is your paymaster. The beginner guide is the first-hour version of this.

Chaos Front demo, no commentary: campaign map and first battles

Named sites from official art

Store screenshots and launch UI already print real labels. Treat them as a living atlas, not a complete gazetteer.

• Massilia / Massalia — the revolution that pulled Consortium fleets into Centersea in C.E.26.
• Kowloon — a timed battle ping: join before the limit expires.
• Shazhou — a proposal target with economy, industry, defense, and stability bars.
• Valencia, Barbary, Nueva Castilla, Hezhou — industrial or flagged worlds on the same board.
• Industrial Base — a Wait node, not a story beat by itself.

Dates already shown include 15/6/C.E.26, 1/10/C.E.27, and 30/11/C.E.27. The fail date is 30/12/C.E.29. The map is a clock with pictures.

Timed banners versus Wait

A banner that names a planet is a calendar event. If it says Kowloon, go to Kowloon. Wait is an explicit button that spends months. Do not Wait because you are lost. Do not Wait to hear the soundtrack. Star 9 on the endings page does not rise while you idle on Valencia.

Repeatable campaign battles exist so you can farm rank without burning unique maps. Arena exists so you can test a titan. Neither replaces unique story nodes. See arena for the test valve.

Factions on the board

The node graph is how the three great powers, the Interstellar Consortium, the Black Flag, and revolutionary worlds pay you. Ally proposals pick a target planet and spend political points. Declaring war from a red button is how you open a front you cannot staff. Read factions before you paint the map in three colors at once.

Hongyu’s campaign leans Shazhou and Gan-court proposals. Lycurgus still walks the same sector as a celebrity gun. Geography is shared. Mission lists are not. See protagonists.

A map routine that does not kill true endings

1. Read the date chip at the top of the screen.
2. Resolve any timed banner before you shop.
3. Take one Mission Center contract you can win with the current build.
4. Move only along connected nodes.
5. Wait only when you intend to skip time.
6. Check star rank in Manage before you leave the sector view.

The map is not a screensaver. Every idle node is a month the Consortium charges you in silence. For the first-clear spine, return to the walkthrough. For who pays, stay on missions.