Abyssis (Abyssis I)

## General Overview

The religious centre of the **Jaqc Monocracy**, Abyssis I is considered to be one of the closely regarded secrets within Jaqc Society. From this world, the *Speaker of the Abyss* gives out his holy commandments to Jaqc forces, guiding them with temporal as well as physical power and directing their holy crusade against their enemies.

Little is known about this world, hidden deep within Jaqc territory in the unexplored regions of the **Tau Quadrant**. The world itself appears to be an *M-Class* planet orbiting a black hole which maintains its habitable conditions from the ambient radiation of accretion disk of the black hole itself.

The black hole, known as *"Al'chu'than"* (meaning "Eye of the Abyss") in Jaqc language is one of the oldest in the **Black Eye Galaxy** (Excluding **Berenices A**, which are classed as *Supermassive Black Holes*), at 9 Billion years old. The planet of Abyssis is the only known planet in the *Abyssis Star System*, which may have been formed from the stellar debris caused when Al'chu'than was originally a star, which collapsed into the black hole it is known as today.

Due to its proximity to **Barras (Jaqc V)**, the considered home planet of the Jaqc, it is possible that Abyssis may once have been a sister star system to Barras, both with planets that gave rise to similar lifeforms, however when Al'chu'than collapsed, it destroyed the original inhabitants and all the planets in the star system, causing the remnants to clump together and form into Abyssis.

It is also possible that the *Abyssis Star System* is the original home location of the **Anthropian** people, a civilisation within the **Galactic Commonwealth** which closely resembles the Jaqc and shares many similar genetic traits. Due to the Anthropians near constant state of civil war however, this information was lost over time. It could also provide an explanation for the Jaqc's distinctive hatred for the Anthropians, who were possibly ignorant of the religious significance of their star system, a point of jealousy within the Jaqc that have devoted themselves to the worship of the **Spirit of the Abyss**.

### Home Planet of the Anthropian Union

In **January 2454**, due to interference by the **Ghast Dominion**, it was revealed that **Abyssis** was the true home planet of both the **Anthropian Union** and the **Jaqc Monocracy**, who had split due to a schism over **5,000 years** prior.

### Destruction

Abyssis was destroyed in **December 2453**, when **Commander Serran**, a surviving Jaqc military officer, attempted to bring an **Old One** called **Izanamis** into the **Black Eye Galaxy** through the **Black Hole** in the system, believing he was making contact with the **Spirit of the Abyss**. Izanamis was another type of Old One that had been sealed away by "**The Void Mother"** for serving **"The Void Father"** before she was confined to the **Eternal Prison**.

Izanamis was stopped by the **Normandy ABS-61944-A** who reversed the polarity of the Black Hole, accidentally creating a **White Hole** which exploded and incinerated the entire star system and caused **The Great Breach**.

## Environmental

Abyssis has a thick, hazy atmosphere which blocks out the additional ultra-violet radiation coming from the accretion disk of the black hole, allowing life to develop on the planet. As a result of this, Abyssis has a swampy, moist surface with temperatures maintaining around 25C, resembling a constant humid hot day on Earth.

Due to the gravitational lensing effect of Al'chu'than, night time on Abyssis is almost 100,000 times brighter then that of a typical M-Class planet. The gravity of the black hole accelerates the planet to such lofty speeds that the starlight all appears to be coming from a single point in front of you that is smaller than the Sun, producing fantastical vistas that resembles a starship at warp.

Additionally minor time dilation exists on Abyssis equivalent to 350 Earth Days to 1 Abyssis day. This creates problems for communication, to which is currently unknown how the Speaker is able to communicate directly with their forces.