The theory asks whether routes changed. It does not establish that Veyra, the Moon, or an offworld settlement literally moved.
A theory of relationship
Displaced Horizon begins with the simultaneous loss of contact with offworld settlements, Archive Severance, and contradictory post-Silence accounts. It asks whether the relationships that made routes and records meaningful changed during the Silence.
The theory can be framed causally or topologically, but no current evidence authorizes a portal, moved-planet map, broken-sky barrier, or literal teleportation event.
An open test
No verified completed arrival-and-return journey has tested the theory across the old routes. The unexplained transit of the Unlocated Guest is relevant testimony, not automatic confirmation.
What the theory explains—and does not
A changed relationship among places could organize the loss of contact, failures of old route knowledge, and the difficulty of interpreting records whose external references no longer agree. That is why the theory remains serious rather than merely poetic.
It does not by itself explain the Moon's globe-like face, stable local astronomy and ecology, incompatible skies, or why the archival media stopped yielding readable state. Treating every anomaly as route displacement would make the theory impossible to test.
Why relationship is the dangerous possibility
Displaced Horizon shifts the question from whether lost things were destroyed to whether the paths, references, or causal connections needed to reach them still mean what they once did. That possibility touches travel, archives, memory, and responsibility at the same time.
For the player, the theory offers a way to connect large mysteries without collapsing them into one answer. Each connection must still be earned independently, and the visitor's own missing transit remains a question they cannot authenticate alone.