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Threshold of the Ninth Plane

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The Threshold of the Ninth Plane is a monastery belonging to the Order of the Ninth Plane, a group of Andarran monks. It is located in the valleys of the planet Andar Prime, somewhere which affords incredible views of the surrounding terrain. The Threshold is one of many such monasteries found throughout the Andarra system.

Following the commercialisation of FTL travel and the expansion of various galactic civilisations, the Order of the Ninth Plane offered up their monasteries for use as diplomatic centres where negotiations could take place in a neutral location. The Threshold was one of the monasteries to be refurbished for this purpose, with improvements including fresh timber and relatively spartan ambassadorial suites.

The Threshold of the Ninth Plane hosted months-long historic negotiations between the Coreworlds Conglomerate, the Empire of the Queil, the Ele and a number of minor civilisations, which resulted in the formation of the Trifold Union.

Later, the key ambassadors to the Trifold Union convened with Aglostarros University Museum Curator Endelle Stroth at the Threshold of the Ninth Plane, in a sparse but clasically furnished meeting room.

Despite the Aneth Fracture’s historical breakaway and exile from the Order’s monasteries in the Andarra system, the Threshold of the Ninth Plane still housed at least one pocket credol, which Curator Stroth “borrowed” in order to undertake the Pilgrimage of Aneth.
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Voiceless Scream

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‘The Voiceless Scream’ was the name given to a black hole located on the border between the Conglomerate Exploration Zone and the Empire of the Queil. When the Scream entered the vicinity of the Derth Cluster, it began to consume all matter in the area; by the time Centurion 35 arrived in the Cluster as part of Project Centennial, the only planet remaining in the system was the world designated as Forsaken Eighty. Analysts from the Aglostarros University Museum believed that the planet only had weeks left before it, too, succumbed to the pull of the Voiceless Scream. In the planet’s final days, the accretion disc of the black hole could be seen in the sky above the smoke clouds caused by the burning forests.

ARK Mandate agent Alther speculated that the Voiceless Scream derived its name from its appearance resembling that of an all-consuming mouth, but she also noted that it resembled an impassive eye.

The ARK Mandate vessel *Venture*, having departed from the area threatened by the Voiceless Scream, was later apprehended by the Galactic Liberation of Wonder en route through the nearby Nore Xi system to a local ARK waystation.
Weru Star Almanac

The Weru Star Almanac is a comprehensive set of astrological maps and charts, illustrating the locations of star systems and the borders of galactic territories for a given year, among other data. Notably, these charts are not presented digitally or virtually, but rather printed on heavy-duty paper and bound into a series of oversized volumes. The unusually physical nature of the Almanac allows its use even when power is unavailable.

Weru Star Almanacs are published annually. Within the society of the Weru, located in the Genn Archipelago star cluster, each new edition of the Star Almanac is considered a must-have akin to a holy text.

The Almanac ably demonstrates the Weru’s comprehensive knowledge of galactic geography. However, the edition currently held by the Aglostarros University Museum in its Project Centennial exhibition corresponds to the year 2260, approximately seven years before the commercialisation of faster-than-light travel. This can easily be recognised by the relatively limited reach of the Coreworlds Conglomerate’s territory and the presence on the map of planets such as Harthoe and Cameyn, which have since been destroyed. Consequently, the Museum sought a more current edition of the Almanac for comparison.
Queil (Language)

Queil is the language spoken by inhabitants of the Empire of the Queil.

Queil astronomers use a word in the Queil language which loosely translates to “forsaken” to refer to any planet with a terminal trajectory. This stems from the belief of Queil philosopher-scientists that there is no purpose in naming anything doomed to perish imminently.
Vice Chancellor

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Vice Chancellor Donior occupies a leading role in the government of the University of Aglostarros, on the planet Aglostarros in the Coreworlds. By extension, he also has a controlling interest in the Aglostarros University Museum and is superior to the museum’s Curator.

When Curator Endelle Stroth met with military personnel from the Coreworlds Conglomerate to discuss possible combat applications for Project Centennial’s findings, the Vice Chancellor unilaterally confirmed the Museum’s agreement to collaborate with the military, citing the need to defend the progress made by the Conglomerate as a result of the Project.

Following the Trifold Union’s issuing of a warrant for the arrest of Endelle Stroth, the Museum stripping Stroth of her role as Curator and her subsequent flight from the Coreworlds, the Vice Chancellor gave a public statement distancing himself and his institution from the former Curator. In the address, he expressed his intention to maintain the University’s high academic standards and welcome visitors from all walks of life to the Museum. He also noted that the Project Centennial exhibition would need to close for a couple of weeks. In a later statement to the AlTime News Channel, Donior reassured the public that the exhibition would remain open in the long term.
Ventine

Ventine is a spice used by inhabitants of the Coreworlds to flavour a variety of dishes. Though ubiquitous to most kitchens in the area, it is not considered particularly remarkable.

In the year 2270, the AlTime News Channel ran a feature reappraising ventine as an "underdog" compared with other spices. In the article, the publication's culinary experts presented three recipes for dishes which prominently featured ventine.
Zius (Deity)

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Zius is a deity known to the people of the Coreworlds.

In the year 2267, Veldt Star Industries unveiled the Pantheon Collection, its range of faster-than-light starships. The freight haulage and logistics model in that range was named the *Zius*-class, after the deity.
Xunne

Xunne is a planet located in the Xu system, within the Drakonwing Expanse. It orbits the binary stars Xu Alpha and Xu Omega, and is the homeworld of the gel-based Xun people. The flower known as the Inkdrop Telea is also native to Xunne, and is the source of the dyes used in the creation of Itelas.

The atmosphere of Xunne is such that the colour yellow cannot occur on the planet, which has led the Xun to become inherently suspicious of outsiders wearing yellow.

Exia, the ancient Xun city which is the setting of the opera *The Fall of Exia*, is located on the surface of Xunne, where it is now a cultural preservation site.
Vodan

Vodan is one of the only two life-sustaining planets in the Vire system, along with its twin Veden. The ecosystems of the two planets are both dominated by the unusually resilient 'Living Wall' orchid.

As part of Project Centennial, the twin planets of Veden and Vodan were visited by Centurion 23, which conducted experiments on the 'Living Wall' orchids.
Vire System

The Vire star system contains only two habitable worlds, the twin planets Veden and Vodan, whose ecosystems are both dominated by the unusually resilient 'Living Wall' orchid.

As part of Project Centennial, the Vire system was visited by Centurion 23, which identified and experimented on the 'Living Wall'. The Centurion’s findings led to a number of neighbouring galactic civilisations, including the Coreworlds Conglomerate and the Empire of the Queil, establishing presences in the Vire system in order to further study the “Living Wall”. These organisations sought to use the plant as a form of protection for military and law enforcement agents.
Warrior (Ele Congregate)

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The Warrior is one of five members of the Ele Congregate, the governing body which represents the Ele Dominion in political matters of interstellar scale. The Warrior is believed to be a member of the Ele species, and is so named because it wears and represents the Warrior mask, one of the five traditional Ele masks.

The Warrior convenes with its fellows (the Artisan, the Builder, the Conductor and the Speaker) in the Halls of the Ele Congregate in the city of Korus, on the Ele capital world of El-Kera.

In the year 2270, the Ele Congregate summoned former Aglostarros University Museum Curator Endelle Stroth to address the fact that Project Centennial's Centurion probes, having entered the Ele Dominion's borders, were attacking Ele without provocation. During this meeting, the Warrior was responsible for explaining the particulars of the frontier assaults, and reassured Stroth that they would do their best to retrieve a Centurion for analysis.

After an Excision Team had successfully detained a Centurion on the conservation world El-Saire and brought it to El-Kera for study, the Ele Congregate reconvened with Stroth, who reported that the probe's survival programming was causing it to perceive the Ele Metanation as a constant cyberattack. The Warrior accurately surmised that the Centurion would act to destroy any such obstacle that it could not avoid.

After reviewing Stroth's findings, the Congregate met with her again in a small orchard outside the walls of Korus, where they asked her to return to Aglostarros and stop the Centurions from the Project Centennial command console in the AUM. During the meeting, the Warrior explained that Ele forces had delayed the Centurions' attacks by transporting them to uninhabited worlds, but noted that it was likely only a matter of time before the probes adapted to resist Ele tampering.
First Victim

In The Beginning, He Was Watching And Saw New Players, He Was So Excited, He Was Ready To Corrupt Every Single One Of Them, So Thats Where He Heads On To His First Mission "Corrupting, Every, Single, One"

his first victim turns out to be by the name: Suta (The Star Player)

he seems to be the lonely one and depressed person out of the group, seifukei looked up to suta with a sad face, seifukei said that he could make him more beautiful by being pink, and yet thats how he ended up corrupting his first victim, so what will seifukei do next, we will find out soon enough
Glass Needle Syndrome

Glass Needle Syndrome is a disease known to affect members of the Queil species. The exact cause of the disease is unknown, though it may be linked to prolonged exposure to atmospheric radiation. Glass Needle manifests as the subject’s feathers deteriorating into translucent, brittle spines, from which the disease gets its name.
Veldt Star Industries Headquarters

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The headquarters of the starship manufacturer Veldt Star Industries is located on the planet Ourinia, in the Coreworlds. It is where the company’s CEO, Ardus Lyn, is based.

In 2267, Veldt Star Industries hosted a keynote conference at its headquarters, in which it unveiled the Pantheon Collection, the first ever range of faster-than-light starships.
The Gunmetal Gyre (Starship)

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The *Gunmetal Gyre* is the personal starship of renowned bounty hunter Tren Krellos, who is also personally known as the Gunmetal Gyre. The gunship is capable of travelling faster than light and following coordinates with precision. The *Gyre* is also highly manoeuvrable, and is equipped with ship-to-ship missiles and torpedoes capable of scrambling its opponent's sensors.

Krellos piloted the *Gunmetal Gyre* in pursuit of fugitive Endelle Stroth, former Curator of the Aglostarros University Museum, as she fled into the Ele Dominion. The *Gyre* engaged Stroth, who was travelling in the *Looking Glass*, by using the light of the nearby star Doresh Daar as cover for a missile attack. However, the attack was stopped short by the arrival of the Ele starship 'Arrowhead', which brought the *Gunmetal Gyre* and the *Looking Glass* aboard.

Later, when Krellos was assigned by the Ele Congregate to accompany Stroth on her return journey to Aglostarros in order to halt the aggressions of Project Centennial's Centurions, the *Gunmetal Gyre* was refitted by the Ele to prepare for the journey. This included a web-like exoskeleton of korelum, which would serve to separate Krellos from the Ele Metanation.
Zell

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Zell is a red-haired female citizen of the Coreworlds. She is employed by ViCorp as a miner of Crystal Cerite on the planet of Harthoe, in the Serpentis Spiral Arm. As such, she operates out of the orbital rig *Lodestone*.

Zell’s superior is Shift Manager Allard. She was amused at Allard’s turn of phrase when he referred to the Cerite-producing insects Ceritians as “little co-workers”.

Zell wears a shield suit to protect her against Harthoe’s hazardous volcanic environment, but she finds the suit’s plastic to be stifling, her internal cooling system malfunctioning and her goggles regularly misting up.

During one mining excursion, Zell found and harvested a piece of Crystal Cerite the size of her head, which would go on to be known as the Compass Rose. Zell considered this formation the second most beautiful thing she had ever seen, next to the paycheck she would receive for finding it.

Although Harthoe was later destroyed by agents of the Montreau Conservatory, Zell escaped the cataclysm somehow. Ultimately, she was one of the many individuals from the Coreworlds and the Empire of the Queil who emigrated into the Ele Dominion in 2270, after learning about the benefits of the Ele Metanation. While taking the Feast of Elforsht on one occasion, Zell met with the former Curator of the Aglostarros University Museum, Endelle Stroth, and explained that she was treating the relocation as a second chance. Stroth later wrote about the encounter in her diary.

At a later feast Zell, now going by El-Zell, also met the former bounty hunter Tren Krellos, who had originally pursued Stroth across the borders of the Ele Dominion. Zell sympathised with Krellos' realisation that he no longer had to work in order to survive, admitting that she was still figuring out her new purpose in life. Zell appeared to be well integrated into her local community.
Corporal Talla Thrake

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Corporal Talla Thrake is a member of the Queil species and an officer of the Empire of the Queil’s watchwarden forces. She is responsible for overseeing the secrecy and defence of the Zelkuun Eyrie orbital station, in which the experimental Martyr Protocol software is being developed. A skilled combatant, she is typically armed with a projectile weapon capable of firing a variety of ammunition, such as flack rounds and explosive rounds, and multiple grenades.

When, as part of Project Centennial, Zelkuun Eyrie was visited by Centurion 68, Corporal Thrake engaged the drone in combat to prevent it from learning of the experimental software. Thrake noted to herself that the facsimile Queil facial features adopted by the Centurion resembled those of her mother. When her attacks proved unsuccessful, Thrake chose to use her last grenade to destroy the Zelkuun Eyrie entirely, ending her own life and potentially disabling the Centurion.
ViCorp

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ViCorp is a mining corporation operating out of the Coreworlds. It is a competitor to Motherlode Mining. ViCorp derives its name from the violet colouration of Astrum-36, its main trade offering.

ViCorp owns star freighters which it uses to expand its Astrum-36 mining operations throughout the Galactic Edge, where employees were sent in teams to mine on barren worlds. This followed the discovery that the chemical could be used as a fuel source for faster-than-light (FTL) travel. ViCorp star freighters are decorated with the company’s orange and yellow branding.

ViCorp is also the creator of the tab-ration, a patented meal replacement tablet originally developed to sustain long-haul freighter pilots and miners travelling to exo-worlds long before the advent of FTL travel, without having to surrender valuable cargo or habitation space to foot storage. After the prototype's success and subsequent productivity boom, ViCorp patented the tablet's design and began to sell it publicly. The company marketed the tab-ration as a time-saver for everyone from office workers on overtime to soldiers on deployment and even students. Tab-rations have since become a ubiquitous, if not entirely welcome, part of working life in the Coreworlds.

ViCorp employees are derisively known as “Vies” by Motherlode Mining personnel such as Drace.

After Veldt Star Industries’ unveiling of its new Pantheon Collection of faster-than-light starships, at its 2267 Keynote Conference on the planet Ourinia, it was reported that ViCorp placed a substantial order for the starships, along with Surt Logistics and the Coreworlds Transport Authority.

ViCorp operated the *Lodestone*, a mining rig in orbit around the planet Harthoe which served as the headquarters of the company’s Crystal Cerite mining operation. The rig was considered essential to the company, as Harthoe was the only known source of Crystal Cerite in the galaxy. When the *Lodestone* activated its AIM Drive and impacted the planet’s surface at faster-than-light speed, it destroyed Harthoe outright, leading to accusations of negligence being leveled against ViCorp for what was officially ruled as a tragic malfunction. These charges were part of a growing trend of litigation against corporations operating on the frontier of the Conglomerate Exploration Zone.

In the year 2270, as citizens of the Coreworlds began to emigrate to the Ele Dominion in their hundreds, tantalised by the promise of a better life as part of the Ele Metanation, the AlTime News Channel interviewed an anonymous traveller who claimed that "to live in harmony with their fellow beings" was preferable to "shovelling Astrum for ViCorp any day."
Thide

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Thide is a male night guard at the Aglostarros University Museum, on the Coreworlds planet of Aglostarros. Like all night guards at the Museum, Thide is equipped with a comm, and can use it to communicate with his fellow guards and, in exceptional circumstances, the Curator of the Museum.

Thide has a fondness for sitcoms, which he often watches while on uneventful shifts at the Museum. His colleague, Garrad, considers these sitcoms to be “insufferable”.

Thide and Garrad are often on the same shift together. When Garrad rediscovered the Project Centennial command console in the Museum’s archive levels, he commed Thide who, in turn, alerted the Curator of the Museum, Endelle Stroth.

Following the commercialisation of faster-than-light travel, Thide stopped watching sitcoms while on his shift, and started reading travel guides about planets located in the Conglomerate Exploration Zone. He was particularly taken by the planet Dor, which Garrad ridiculed.

Soon after that, Thide left his job at the Museum to seek his fortune on the frontier. His position as a night guard was filled by someone else, whom Garrad considered too quiet.
Urse

Urse is the smallest of three moons orbiting the planet Tyriss, in the Goh III system in the Medial Ring. Along with its sisters Tyr and Dirit, Urse orbits the resort world elliptically.

Approximately once a year, Dirit and Urse pass close enough to each other that small particles of rock and dust break off from each moon, forming a beautiful but harmless meteorite shower in the skies of Tyriss.
Tyriss

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Tyriss is a habitable planet and the only celestial body orbiting the star Goh III, located on the Medial Ring. Tyriss’ relative proximity to Goh III gives it a tropical climate, with turbulent polar oceans and dramatic storms in place of ice caps and true winters.

Three moons orbit elliptically around Tyriss, named (from largest to smallest) Tyr, Dirit and Urse. Approximately once a year, Dirit and Urse pass close enough to each other that small particles of rock and dust break off from each moon, forming a beautiful but harmless meteorite shower in the skies of Tyriss.

The ecology of Tyriss is mostly fungal in nature, with many of the planet’s major landmasses occupied by forests of brightly coloured, branching mycelia. Airborne spores gather in fog-like clouds around these jungles, giving them a strangely dream-like quality.

Paleontological scans conducted by Centurion 54 as part of Project Centennial suggest that Tyriss had a much more diverse biome in its (relatively) recent past. Surveys indicate that large mammalian beings populated much of the planet’s southern hemisphere approximately five centuries ago, but that most were hunted to extinction when a crashed starship from a neighbouring civilisation, the Iniir, introduced the predatory aradog species.

Packs of aradogs are now common throughout Tyriss, hunting and feeding on the last of the planet’s fauna as well as each other. Small enclaves of Iniir, descended from the crash survivors, can also be found across the planet, though they are generally insular and reclusive.

Following the commercialisation of FTL travel, Tyriss was shortlisted and late approved for resort world status. Despite technological developments, it takes a long time to travel between the coreworld of Ourinia and Tyriss, but visitors to the planet could expect spa, sunbathing and bar facilities, under the protection of magnetised particle fields. Sanctuarie was one such resort.
University of Aglostarros

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The University of Aglostarros is a university on the Coreworlds planet of Aglostarros, and the leading academic institution of the Coreworlds Conglomerate. Vice Chancellor Donior is a high-ranking member of the University's administration.

The University maintains a substantial contingent of scientists and analysts, covering a wide array of scientific disciplines. These scientists identified that, with the correct focusing apparatus, the chemical compound Astrum-36 could serve as a highly efficient fuel source for faster-than-light (FTL) travel. The University also once counted among its ranks one Professor Argil Stroth, whose thesis *On Adaptive Programming* would form the foundation of the University's work on Project Centennial and its Centurion probes.

The University created and funds the Aglostarros University Museum, which is also located on Aglostarros.

The University once hosted a psychology lecture which explored the benefits of journal-keeping as a form of therapy. The lecture was attended by Endelle Stroth, who thought little of it at the time. The University also maintains a venerable library, which Stroth enjoyed perusing on occasion.

The University was responsible for launching Project Centennial in the year 2165, but later mothballed the Project after its Centurions became unresponsive. When it was relaunched in 2265, responsibility for the Project was turned over to the Aglostarros University Museum.

As part of its cultural education mandate, the University partnered with the Coreworlds Cultural Fund to host a limited run production of traditional Xun opera *The Fall of Exia*, to be performed by the Xunne Operatic Players at the Gardolos Theatre on Aglostarros.

When Centurion probes began traversing the territory of the Empire of the Queil, reports indicated that they were targeting Queil military assets and facilities, and responding with lethal and destructive force when denied access. The University publicly recommended that the Queils simply allowed the Centurions to continue their research unopposed, but the institution’s personnel privately confessed that they were shocked by the Centurions’ capacity for violence.

The University declined to comment to the press when Endelle Stroth was stripped of her role as Curator of the AUM, after the Trifold Union had issued a warrant for her arrest. Following Stroth’s flight from the Coreworlds, the Vice Chancellor gave a statement distancing himself and his institution from the former Curator. In the address, he expressed his intention to maintain the University’s high academic standards.

In the year 2270, the Family Oramande purchased a majority share in the University in a transaction valued at more than ⍺1,000,000, and Baroness Dorn Oramande subsequently appointed herself as the AUM's new Curator.
Viriath Imperium

The Viriath Imperium was a terrestrial empire whose territory spanned most habitable regions of the planet Orakle, in the Medial Ring star system of Serinyr.

Scant details regarding the now-extinct Imperium remain, but records retrieved by ARK Mandate teams alongside the Sceptre of Viriath gesture at a prosperous society. It is believed that the Sceptre may have been a symbol of office among the Viriath Imperium, carried by a member of the royal family or one of their advisors.

Recovered sources also suggest that the Viriath Imperium was prone to frequent ideological schisms, and that one such conflict may have been the cause of the empire’s destruction, along with the planet it inhabited. Research indicates that a weapon known as a ‘Heartbreaker’ Bomb induced a nuclear cataclysm which split the planet Orakle in two, rendering both hempisheres uninhabitable.
Zoologists of the Rentholme Expedition

The expedition led by Draik Rentholme into the unknown regions of the galaxy, beyond the frontier of the Coreworlds Conglomerate, included a number of zoologists.

These zoologists were responsible for identifying the Desert Katoo, a small, rodent-like reptile native to Morithe, a planet in the Conglomerate Exploration Zone which later became a resort world. They named the creature based on its striking visual similarity to the mammalian Katoo, which was found on the plains of the coreworld Gil Tol. However, there was no evidence to indicate that the two species were in any way related. The zoologists also identified insects on the surface of Morithe on which the omnivorous Desert Katoo fed.
Collaboration

A **Collaboration** is essentially a group of Scratchers who collaborate on making projects. A collaboration may also sometimes be referred to as a "company" - this term comes from the idea that these groups of Scratchers exemplify a great amount of team work and dedication, with each Scratcher contributing and specializing in his or her own talent to the benefit of other team members, very much like way a real company operates. In the official Scratch Blog, ScratchR andresmh describes collaborations as "[a] group of Scratchers that get together (virtually) to create collaborative projects", and mentions how collaborations on Scratch are an "interesting phenomena" occuring in the Scratch website. Most companies/collaborations have their own logo, studio, forum thread, and sometimes even motto. 2010 has been called "the year of the companies" by some users due to many companies/collaborations forming, possibly due to the Collaboration forum.

## What makes a good Scratch collaboration?

A good Scratch collaboration requires teamwork and agreement. All participants need to know what is being done in order to make the collaboration successful. Progress should be rapid (but not rushed); if left for too long, participants can lose interest and greatly slow the project. Making a collaborative group is easy if the entire group is caught up.
The Sorrows of Kor'Tor

*The Sorrows of Kor'Tor* is a theatrical drama directed by Immus Omn, which debuted in the Coreworlds in 2270. Speaking in an exclusive spotlight interview with the AlTime News Channel, Omn explained that *The Sorrows of Kor'Tor* drew heavily upon their own lived experiences, which made it "beautiful".

*The Sorrows of Kor'Tor* led the nominations for the 2270 Celebration of Performing and Televised Arts (COPTA) Awards, and as such was heavily featured in AlTime's 22-page feature providing more information on the nominees.

As predicted, *The Sorrows of Kor'Tor* won numerous awards at the 2270 COPTAs, but director Omn themself failed to receive recognition. This prompted the Iniir director to speak up, demanding better recognition by COPTA of talent from the Vassal Territories.
Umi

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Umi is a young male citizen of the Coreworlds and a former intern with Motherlode Mining. He joined the corporation following the discovery of Astrum-36 powered faster-than-light (FTL) travel, and was assigned to mine Astrum-36 at a Motherlode compound on a barren, rocky planet.

Umi wears a Motherlode Mining spacesuit and works in a group with Alther and Drace. Umi enjoys teasing Alther, and speculated that she really left the Coreworlds in order to kiss an Eldori. Alther refuted this suggestion.

Sometime later, Umi left his work with Motherlode Mining to become an agent for the ARK Mandate, along with his colleagues Drace and Alther, aboard the starship *Venture*. In this capacity, he was assigned to retrieve specimens of endangered flora and fauna from the surface of the planet Forsaken Eighty, in the Derth Cluster, which was about to be consumed by a local black hole known as the Voiceless Scream. As ARK agents, Umi and his colleagues wear hazcon suits. Umi continued to bring the same level of snark he had exibited at Motherlode to his work in ARK.

Umi was responsible for carrying the last of the creatures they had been assigned to rescue from Forsaken Eighty - namely, the Derth Drakonids - onto the ARK team’s starship.

Umi was later surprised when a limpet launched by the Galactic Liberation of Wonder attached to the *Venture*’s hull while they were travelling faster than light, as he believed that hitting an obstacle while travelling at such speed would instantly destroy the ship. He and his crew were subsequently directed to coordinates dictated by GLoW. Later reports of the incident held that the *Venture* had been destroyed, with Umi and all others aboard killed as a result. The loss was commemorated at a small memorial ceremony on Aglostarros.

However, though presumed dead in the Coreworlds, Umi and the other crew of the *Venture* were in truth taken to GLoW’s headquarters.
Zelkuun Eyrie

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Zelkuun Eyrie is an orbital station created and operated by the military forces of the Empire of the Queil. It is located above an unknown planet, somewhere in Queil space. Like the Queils’ terrestrial Roost stations, the Eyrie is monitored by a watchwarden, Corporal Talla Thrake.

Zelkuun Eyrie is the site chosen for the development of the experimental military software Martyr Protocol. While designing the Protocol, the station’s personnel raised concerns that the software’s ability to remotely commandeer and control any starship connected to the Queil Astronet could endanger civilian lives. However, this did not halt the development process.

As part of Project Centennial, Zelkuun Eyrie was visited by Centurion 68, who discovered the Martyr Protocol under development. The Centurion was opposed by Corporal Thrake, who chose to destroy the station using a grenade rather than allow it to be taken by the drone. The Eyrie’s entry in Project Centennial’s database was subsequently redacted.
Vildel-class Staryacht

The *Vildel*-class Staryacht is an upmarket model of starship produced by Veldt Star Industries. Its hull design is notable for its organic-looking curved edges and sweeping fins, a departure from Veldt's usual, more angular and utilitarian models.

Ownership of a staryacht such as the *Vildel*-class is considered a symbol of high status among the wealthy elite of the Coreworlds.
Plasma Strobe

The plasma strobe is a starship-mounted weapons system commonly used by military starfighters, particularly those of the Coreworlds, much like the thermal flack launcher.

Both systems are popular after-market upgrades to the Veldt Star Industries *Estir*-class Starship, although most pilots admit that they are reluctant to actually use the weapons. Instead, systems such as the plasma strobe typically serve as a visual deterrent to threats such as pirates and agents of the Galactic Liberation of Wonder movement.
Vildarne Exiles

The Vildarne Exiles are or were a society of spacefaring sentients originating from the planet Vildarne, within the territory of the Ele Dominion. They were displaced from their homeworld following an event known as the Vildarne Cataclysm, which either destroyed the planet or rendered it uninhabitable.

Vildarne's close proximity to the El system, in astronomical terms, meant that the Exiles were one of the first civilisations to be encountered by the Ele species, and thus one of the first to be integrated into the Ele Metanation. It is unknown how much of the Exiles' original cultural identity has remained intact following centuries of Metanation membership. However, aspects of their homeworld's biome are preserved in the Fields of Elkre, a botanical garden in Korus, on the Ele capital world El-Kera.

The Vildarne Exiles were preceded in their integration into the Ele Metanation by the Xyll, the Foros Cluster and the Tuyen.
The Foths

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The Foths are a family of Coreworlds citizens who lived next door to Aglostarros University Museum night guard Garrad, in his apartment building on the planet Aglostarros.

Following the commercialisation of faster-than-light travel, the Foths moved out of the apartment and relocated to a farming colony on the planet Adene, in the Conglomerate Exploration Zone.
Warrior (Ele Mask)

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The Warrior is one of five types of mask worn by members of the Ele Metanation to represent their talents or cultural roles, along with the Artisan, Builder, Conductor and Speaker. Like their counterparts, Warrior masks are created, using a glass shaper, from a seamless, opaque and polished material resembling black glass.

The Warrior mask is sculpted to resemble a skull, and is designed to appear intimidating. It corresponds to members of the Metanation who have dedicated themselves to defending the Ele and the sacred territories of the Ele Dominion. Training in these ways is conducted by sergeants such as El-Q'rokar, who are capable of providing the training necessary for any Ele to defend themselves in a fight.

Despite the existence of the Warrior mask, the Metanation's spread and integration of newcomers means that open war is infrequent. Most conflicts that do arise typically stem from beings' strong existing convictions leading to misinterpretation, abuse or objection to the Metanation. For these instances, the Ele maintain a number of Excision Teams, drawn from among the wearers of the Warrior mask, who deploy antipsychic cages in order to contain miscreants and separate them from the Metanation.

As with the other four masks, the Warrior is represented on the Ele Congregate by a member of the Ele species, who is also known as the Warrior.

Upon arriving on the Dominion's capital world of El-Kera, the fugitive Endelle Stroth considered taking up the Conductor mask due to her previous role as the Curator of the Aglostarros University Museum. She believed that a lot of people she had known in that life would agree with the choice. However, embracing the opportunity for change, Stroth instead selected the Warrior mask. The decision appeared to please El-Deen, who had guided her through the selection process. As a result of this choice, Stroth was renamed "El-Endelle, the Warrior".

As El-Endelle would soon learn, Ele who take up the Warrior mask are required to complete a mandatory combat training course, with sessions every morning. This regimen caused her a lot of pain during her first week in Korus, but after about a month, she felt she had learned enough to not embarrass herself in combat.
Limpet

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A ‘limpet’ is an unmanned technological device designed to travel through the vacuum of space and attach securely to the hull of a starship. It is capable of doing so even if the target is travelling faster than light. Once affixed, the limpet is able to infiltrate and hijack its host starship’s computer systems, performing actions such as delivering data and forcing comm connections. Limpets also carry a powerful explosive element that can be remotely detonated, causing severe damage to the host starship.

One such limpet was employed by the Galactic Liberation of Wonder movement against the ARK Mandate starship *Venture* in the Nore Xi system. GLoW used the limpet to provide the starship with new coordinates and threatened to detonate the device if the *Venture* did not comply with their demands.
Xille Tenser

Xille Tenser is a Xun theatrical actor hailing from the planet Xunne, in the Xu system of the Drakonwing Expanse. She is a member of the Xunne Operatic Players, and is regarded by some sources as “the Dame of Xun theatre”. Tenser’s credits include the operas *Teleas in Bloom* and *The Blessed March*.

Following the commercialisation of faster-than-light travel, Tenser and the other Xunne Operatic Players were invited to mount a production of traditional Xun opera *The Fall of Exia* at the Gardolos Theatre on Aglostarros, for eight performances over a single week. Marketing for the limited run described Tenser’s turn in this production as “the performance of her career”.
Varior

Varior is a planet located in the Conglomerate Exploration Zone, which was rapidly settled by explorers from the Coreworlds Conglomerate and converted into a resort world.

Varior, like Tyriss, was later one of several resort worlds on which holidaymakers were set upon by predatory creatures. For this reason, analysts labeled the decision to settle civilians on Varior a reckless one.
Veldt Star Industries

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Veldt Star Industries is a starship manufacturing corporation based on the planet Ourinia in the Coreworlds, marketing to citizens of the Coreworlds Conglomerate. It owns a number of shipyards, which it uses to produce its starships.

Veldt Star Industries employs a number of staff members, including a CEO. In the year 2267, the position of CEO was held by Ardus Lyn.

In the year 2267, Veldt Star Industries hosted a keynote conference at its headquarters on Ourinia, in which CEO Ardus Lyn showcased its development of the AIM Drive and announced the debut of its Pantheon Collection, a range of faster-than-light starships which were released in the same year.

Prior to this, Veldt had garnered great acclaim for its Nomad Collection, a range of starships designed to be modular and customisable. Veldt is also well known for its starships’ comfort and convenience, according to Lyn.

Veldt also produces a number of upmarket starship models for high-net-worth customers, including the *Vildel*-class Staryacht.

Major customers of Veldt Star Industries include ViCorp, Surt Logistics and the Coreworlds Transport Authority.

In 2270, Veldt released its successor range to the Pantheon Collection, named the Eidolon Collection. While retaining its predecessors' AIM Drive integration and modular design, the Eidolon Collection controversially focused on the inclusion of weapons systems and greater defence. At the keynote showcasing the new range, Ardus Lyn cited growing threats from the Ele Dominion, Empire of the Queil and Galactic Liberation of Wonder movement as motivation to help customers feel more secure while travelling the galaxy.
Coreworlds Intelligence

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Coreworlds Intelligence is the Coreworlds Conglomerate's espionage and counter-espionage agency, and is a division of the Conglomerate's military forces.

In the year 2270, Coreworlds Intelligence was responsible for investigating the possible threat of Project Centennial's Centurion probes to galactic security. Quoting an anonymous source within the organisation, the AlTime News Channel reported that the Project had been compromised by the Galactic Liberation of Wonder movement, which was opening backdoors into the Project's systems faster than Coreworlds Intelligence could close them.
Tresh-II

Tresh-II is a planet of the Tresh system, located within the Conglomerate Exploration Zone, and the neighbour of Tresh-I.

In the era before the commercialisation of faster-than-light travel, Tresh-II was designated as an exo-world by the Coreworlds Conglomerate, and became a key waypoint or terminus along the Tresh-II Supply Canal, an early starlane for the transport of natural resources. As such, Tresh-II was regularly visited by spacers and miners in the employ of companies such as ViCorp, on long-haul flights from the Coreworlds themselves.

With the advent of FTL travel, the Tresh system was absorbed into the Conglomerate Exploration Zone, rendering Tresh-II's exo-world designation obsolete. The Tresh-II Supply Canal continues to pass through the system, but its current relevance may be somewhat diminished.
Xyll

The Xyll are or were a galactic civilisation located within the borders of the Ele Dominion. The homeworlds of the Xyll are, on an astronomical scale, immediate neighbours to the El system, making them the first society to be contacted by the Ele species and the first to be integrated into the Ele Metanation. According to some accounts of Ele history, the folk hero Elkre was the first individual to make contact with the Xyll. The Xyll homeworlds are also near the planet Tuyn, the Foros Cluster and the now destroyed or uninhabitable world Vildarne.

It is unknown how much of the Xyll's original cultural identity has remained intact following centuries of Metanation membership. However, aspects of their homeworlds' biomes are preserved in the Fields of Elkre, a botanical garden in Korus, on the Ele capital world El-Kera.

The Xyll were followed in their integration into the Ele Metanation by the Foros Cluster, the Tuyen and the Vildarne Exiles.
Tuyn

The planet Tuyn is located deep within the territory of the Ele Dominion, and is the homeworld of the Tuyen civilisation. On an astronomical scale, Tuyn is proximate to the El system, meaning the Tuyen were one of the first societies to be visited by the Ele species and thus integrated into the Ele Metanation. It is also near to the Foros Cluster, the homeworlds of the Xyll, and the now destroyed or uninhabitable planet Vildarne.

Aspects of Tuyn's biome are preserved in the Fields of Elkre, a botanical garden located within the city of Korus, on the Ele capital world El-Kera. These specimens include the flowering plant Opalescent Ven-of-Tuyn, which derives its name from the planet on which it grows.