Urantia

Urantia is the capitol world of the Second Dominion after the destruction of Earth, the homeworld of the Leomhi race, and the primary planet of Urantia System. It is also the primary setting of the novel Daedalus. Urantia remains a crucial player in the history of Solverse throughout the Second and Third Trilogies.
The whole system is approaching Sol System at about 22,500 m/s. Urantia will therefore pass very near Sol System at some point, and that fact has to be addressed and dealt with.
== Location ==
Urantia is 4.37 light years from Earth in the constellation Centaurus. It orbits Alpha Centauri, called simply Alpha by the Leomhi. 
== Name ==
Originally called Centauri Prime by the Centaurians who settled it, the Urantians who are descended from the Centaurians are not aware from whence they came. This is a vital plot point of Daedalus, the Urantian people discovering their own origins as Joshua of Nun works with the budding Leomhi space program. 
The word Urantia was originally thought by the nascent Second Dominion to be a linguistic corruption of Centauri, caused by changes in pronunciation and inversion of phonemes. Intensive further research revealed the influence of the 20th century religious text The Urantia Book and its promulgation through the original Progress fleet project by Arthur Feingold. 
Nun is the city from which Joshua is from.
== History ==
SY 236.7: The Progress Fleet arrives in the Alpha Centauri System.
SY 422: Fall of the Centaurian civilization to disease and infighting. Most scientific and rational knowledge is lost due to the plague. All the Leomhi people know of the Centaurians is that they once spanned the entire planet in a united civilization, came from the stars, and were destroyed by a terrible unknown apocalyptic plague that wiped out 99.9% of the population. That .1% of the surviving Centaurian population is from whence the Leomhi and the other nations of Urantia are descended.
From SY 422 to SY 630, the survivors of the great plague undergo a period of rapid evolution. Their genetics and physical makeup significantly diverge from humans of Sol System to the point where they are considered a separate species.
SY 630: Rise of the Leomhi people.
SY 855: The Dominion, engineered by Joshua and his team from the remains of the Progress fleet, arrives in Sol System.
SY 1030: Urantia becomes the capitol world of the Second Dominion.
== Behind the Scenes ==
The name Urantia comes from The Urantia Book, a metaphysical text originating in the early 20th century.Category:Worlds
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