Aglostarros University Museum

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The Aglostarros University Museum is a museum created and funded by the University of Aglostarros, and located on the planet of Aglostarros in the Coreworlds. the Museum is presided over by a Curator, a role most recently occupied by Endelle Stroth.

The Museum’s lower levels are used as archive storage for an assortment of items and artefacts, particularly those from previous exhibitions. These store levels are in disrepair and infested with insects and skrots. The command console for Project Centennial was stored in the Museum’s archive levels until it was reactivated and began to receive signals from Centurions once more.

Outside of visiting hours, the Museum is regularly patrolled and maintained by night guards such as Garrad and Thide.

Following the reactivation of Project Centennial in 2265, the Museum became the host of both the Project and its associated exhibition.

After the Compass Rose Cerite was sold at auction to Baroness Dorn Oramande, wealthy matriarch of the Family Oramande, the Baroness reached out to the Museum through agents of the Montreau Conservatory, requesting that the Museum expunge all references to Crystal Cerite from the Project Centennial exhibition. The Museum denied this request, earning it the ire of the Baroness, who sought to preserve the exclusivity of the Compass Rose. Later, in an extended spotlight interview conducted by the AlTime News Channel in 2270, Baroness Oramande would claim that AUM's allegations that she had been in some way responsible for the Harthoe tragedy were slanderous.

Approximately one month after the destruction of the planet Harthoe, the Museum unveiled its new initiative, the ARK Mandate, with the stated mission goal of “preserving and protecting the rare and unique”. The Mandate was spearheaded by Curator Stroth and represented the first major collaboration between the member states of the Trifold Union. However, Stroth was quick to clarify that, though the two were “connected in spirit” and a natural progression, the ARK Mandate was entirely distinct from Project Centennial.

Based on data reported by Centurion 35, analysts from the Museum later identified that the planet Forsaken Eighty in the Derth Cluster had only weeks left before it was consumed by a local black hole known as the Voiceless Scream. This observation allowed the ARK Mandate to dispatch a team to preserve as much of the planet’s flora and fauna as possible before it was destroyed. However, the Museum’s analysts also noted that, as it approached the singularity, Forsaken Eighty’s ambient temperature would have increased by more than 10ºC, incinerating the planet’s woodland and rendering it almost entirely uninhabitable.

The Galactic Liberation of Wonder movement called out the AUM within the text of their Manifesto, in asserting their belief that the wonders of the galaxy should “remain in [their] proper place,” rather than “gathering dust in some museum on Aglostarros.” Curator Stroth contested the notion that the AUM sought to hide off its recovered artefacts from the public.

When Centurions were sighted within the Empire of the Queil, the Museum and its Curator once again came under fire from Queil leadership, with ambassador Prince Aster holding that the probes in their territory posed a significant security risk, as evidenced by the scans of sensitive Queil military targets that soon began appearing in the Project Centennial archives. Such entries, including the profile of Kalere Roost, were quickly redacted and then removed by AUM at the Empire’s behest.

Press sources covering a meeting at the Threshold of the Ninth Plane on Andar Prime between the representatives of the Trifold Union’s three main powers and Curator Stroth noted that Project Centennial’s discovery of Astrum-36 had granted the AUM a central role in galactic politics. However, despite the worrying developments in which the Museum found itself embroiled, it continued to absolve itself of culpability, stating instead that it was only providing the galaxy with knowledge, and could not control what others would do with that knowledge.

Endelle Stroth was stripped of her role as Curator of the AUM when the Trifold Union issued an open warrant for her arrest, due to her suspected role in the Centurion attacks against the Empire of the Queil. It was not made clear at the time who would replace her as Curator. According to a statement made by Vice Chancellor Donior, the Museum would continue to welcome visitors from all walks of life. However, he conceded that the Project Centennial exhibition would need to close for a couple of weeks.

In 2270, after Centurion 56 and Centurion 72 proved to resist destruction by Queil forces in the Gordian Veldt, analysts from the Museum gave a statement to the AlTime News Channel attempting to reassure the public that the probes were only programmed to explore, and that if left to carry out their task they would not respond with violence.

Later that year, the Family Oramande purchased a majority share in the University of Aglostarros, in a transaction valued at more than ⍺1,000,000. Baroness Dorn Oramande subsequently appointed herself as AUM's new Curator. Speculators believed this move would be followed by the permanent closure of the Project Centennial exhibition, a rumour which drove up the price of alien antiquities substantially. GLoW was uncertain about how to respond to this development. The closure was later confirmed, and the Project's artefacts were sent to "secure storage", according to a museum spokesperson. A GLoW rumour-mongering campaign suggested that these exhibits had instead ended up in the Oramandes' private collection.

However, the arrival of the Centurion probes within the Ele Dominion gave the Project Centennial exhibition a new burst of momentum, as the Coreworlds were once again fascinated by new and unusual locations and cultures. This engagement allowed the Museum to keep its exhibition open for a little longer.