Agusia

“Death is a land into which we will all pass in time.”
–ancient Terran proverb
Agusia is a tomb-world that circles a dim red star. A lost human
civilization transported their dead to Agusia for millennia,
and in doing so turned it into a necropolis world. The vast
ruin-deserts and spire-mountains of Agusia remain desolate,
eroded, or half-buried by wind-driven dust, empty of all but
the remains of a long-distant past. Every part of Agusia’s
surface is buried beneath strata of crumbling edifices and seas
of dust eroded from the ancient stonework. Every chamber is
a sepulcher of great antiquity, every space a mausoleum. The
decaying upper tomb-spires and kilometers of compacted
ruins beneath contain the material echoes of a trillion souls.
Agusia remains almost untouched by explorers with the
sole exception being a small expedition of Disciples of Thule
sect of the Adeptus Mechanicus, who has penetrated in to the
catacombs beneath the icy deserts of the northern polar zone.
So far the Thuleans have investigated only a small fraction of
the world, and vast amounts remain hidden and undisturbed.
Yet what the Tech-Priests have discovered is both wondrous
and puzzling: ornate sloping tomb-fanes, huge dormant
prayer-mechanisms of a dozen varieties, mausoleums
efficiently filled by stacked biers, impassable walls of black-green
metal set with intricate silvered magnetic runes, ornate
hololithic displays of abstract art somehow still active after
millennia. What wonders or terrors lurk in the unexplored
portions of the world remain to be revealed.
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