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Dothroi Religious Adherents

Certain members of the Dothroi people believe in deities including Dothor, after whom the local star and system are named. They write myths and scriptures about Dothor.

These Dothroi believe that the Dothor Lightfields were created by Dothor as a magical ward to protect their civilisation, and so they consider the Lightfields sacred. The Dothroi capitalists’ practice of mining the asteroids of the Lightfields brings them into conflict with the more religious Dothroi, sometimes resulting in major outbreaks of violence.

Centurion 87 observed the religious practices of the Dothroi as part of Project Centennial, but was unable to find any evidence that Dothor truly exists or ever previously existed.
Andorra System

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Andarra is the star system from which the Andarran species hails. The capital planet of this system is Andar Prime.

The Andarran monks of the Order of the Ninth Plane have numerous monasteries established throughout the Andarra system. These monasteries were visited by Centurion 44 as part of Project Centennial.

Following the commercialisation of FTL travel, the Andarra system became crucial to astropolitics, due to the Order of the Ninth Plane offering their monasteries as a neutral ground for key events and negotiations. The Order also devised the synthetic language Andarran Standard (AS) for these negotiations, which went on to become an official language of the Andarra system.

According to certain scriptures, when the Aneth Fracture broke away from the Order of the Ninth Plane, they were exiled from all of the Order’s monasteries throughout the Andarra system. As a result, the approximately two dozen breakaway adherents fled to a barren moon in the system, from which they plotted a path to their new home in the Halls of Aneth, on Kollian. New and prospective adherents can now follow that same path, known as the Pilgrimage of Aneth, from the Andarra system to Kollian.
Resort Worlds

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A handful of planets within the Conglomerate Exploration Zone have been designated as “resort worlds” by Intrepid Tours and other colonists from the Coreworlds. These worlds are the sites of hotels, restaurants and spas which host galactic travellers with a taste for luxury. Resorts are typically protected from a planet’s predators and environmental hazards by a perimeter of magnetised particle fields.

Resort worlds often play host to holidaymakers from interstellar pleasure cruises operated by Intrepid. The planet Morithe, located at the far edge of the CEZ, is one such world.

The resorts established on these worlds often sell locally-sourced products as souvenirs to guests. One example of this is the selling on Morithe of Desert Katoo-hide clothing and accessories, and the serving of Desert Katoo egg dishes in the resorts’ restaurants.

A number of resort worlds within the CEZ, including Tyriss and Varior, experienced devastating attacks at the hands of local predators, which managed to break through the magnetised particle barriers due to sheer numbers. This led to Intrepid’s decision to recruit private security organisation Gridlock Transgalactic to defend its resort worlds against such attacks. This was predicted to be the start of a trend on similar planets.

Privately, Aglostarros University Museum Curator Endelle Stroth speculated that the founding of resort worlds, along with other expansionist projects such as the actions of the ARK Mandate and the movements of Project Centennial’s Centurions themselves, may indeed have invited the challenges and disasters now faced by the Trifold Union.
Kidan

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Kidan is one of the central planets of the Empire of the Queil. It is the location of the headquarters of the Union Defence Alliance, the military force created by the Trifold Union from the ARK Mandate, colonial security forces and Queil military assets in order to combat the Galactic Liberation of Wonder movement. Queil General Stele, a high-ranking officer in the UDA, is based at and delivers press briefings from the headquarters on Kidan.
Nere Tea

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Nere tea is a warm beverage made and consumed by members of the Ele Metanation on the planet El-Kera, the capital world of the Ele Dominion. It is made from the scented leaves of the nere tree, which carry a fresh and floral aroma with undertones of rich sweetness.

El-Deen, the Ele ambassador to the Trifold Union, enjoyed drinking nere tea as a social activity. He served nere tea to the fugitive ex-Curator of the Aglostarros University Museum, Endelle Stroth, and the bounty hunter Tren Krellos, when the two of them we brought aboard the starship 'Arrowhead'. El-Deen reassured his guests that the tea was not poisoned.
Exia

Exia is an ancient city located on the surface of the planet Xunne, in the Xu system within the Drakonwing Expanse. It was once a major settlement of the Xun people, and is now a cultural preservation site.

As its title suggests, Exia is the setting of Xun opera *The Fall of Exia*. Per the opera, the walled city eventually fell after a prolonged siege, in which rival noble families competed to preserve their legacies. The story of lovers Inx and Exne which forms the centrepiece of the opera is understood to be entirely fictional.
Aeris-Class Starship

The *Aeris*-class starship is a model of starship produced by Veldt Star Industries at its shipyards on Ourinia, in the Coreworlds, for purchase by citizens of the Coreworlds.

The *Aeris*-class starship is part of the Eidolon Collection, Veldt's 2270 successor range to 2267's Pantheon Collection, which controversially focusses more on integrated weapons systems and greater defence. As such, the *Aeris*-class is marketed as a lightweight personal fighter. Along with its various combat systems, the *Aeris*-class is outfitted with an AIM Drive for faster-than-light travel, and the customisable modular design which has been a staple of Veldt's starships since the Nomad Collection.

The Eidolon Collection's larger models, the *Sapara*-class frigate, *Koren*-class cruiser and *Helme*-class orbital fortress, are all capable of housing and deploying a number of *Aeris*-class fighters.

The origin of the name *Aeris* is unknown, but given the predecessor Pantheon Collection's use of the names of deities, it is likely that this title also references mythology or folklore.

Along with the rest of the Eidolon Collection, the *Aeris*-class was unveiled by Veldt's CEO Ardus Lyn at a keynote event in 2270. Shortly after, the AlTime News Channel's Home & Ship section ran a feature showcasing the model's technical specifications with a "foldout" illustration.
El-Morior

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El-Dreefi is a member of the Ele Metanation, and as such resides within the borders of Ele Dominion. He wears the Warrior mask, and serves in an Excision Team along with El-Dreefi and El-Murth.

In the year 2270, after receiving a dispensation from the Ele Congregate, El-Morior and his team travelled to the conservation world El-Saire. There, they hoped to capture one of Project Centennial's Centurions for analysis, to determine what was causing the probes to unilaterally attack Ele populations. El-Dreefi and El-Murth acted as a scouting party to determine the Centurion's location, after which El-Morior used thought-threads to transfer in and trap the drone in an antipsychic cage. the Centurion showed immediate aggression towards El-Morior upon his arrival, but the warrior's quick reflexes meant the cage had deployed before it could attack.
Galactic Liberation of Wonder Headquarters

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The Galactic Liberation of Wonder movement makes its headquarters in the caverns under the Halls of Aneth on Kollian, which are notoriously difficult to reach without completing the Pilgrimage of Aneth. The headquarters comprises a series of caves and tunnels carved from rust-coloured rock illuminated by harsh fluorescent lights. The complex includes hangars, bunks, storage for artefacts recovered from the ARK Mandate and at least one commissary.

When the crew of the ARK Mandate starship *Venture* were presumed dead by the Coreworlds Conglomerate, following the hijacking of the vessel by GLoW, they were in fact taken to GLoW’s headquarters, where Alther was convinced by her guide, Emret, to join the organisation. The headquarters is also the temporary destination of many of the artefacts and specimens stolen by GLoW from the ARK Mandate, such as the Sceptre of Viriath.

Following her meeting with the ambassadors of the Trifold Union, Aglostarros University Museum Curator Endelle Stroth undertook the Pilgrimage of Aneth and arrived at the GLoW headquarters, where she was greeted and accompanied by Challe.
Rimbalan Bloc

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The Rimbalan Bloc are a minor galactic civilisation compared with the Coreworlds Conglomerate or the Empire of the Queil, much like the Eldori and the Dothroi. The Bloc sent a small delegation to a diplomatic summit held at the Threshold of the Ninth Plane on Andar Prime, at which the Trifold Union was created. The Rimbalan Bloc only sought to protect their own interests at the summit, and didn’t have the inclination or resources to acquire more territory. Following the establishment of the Union, the Rimbalan Bloc became one of its Vassal Territories.
Dor

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Dor is a planet located in the Conglomerate Exploration Zone. Travel guides written about the planet allege that it is made of solid diamond.

Dor captured the imagination of Thide, a night guard at the Aglostarros University Museum. His colleague, Garrad, remarked that the name sounded like “Door” because it was intended to be inviting, and also noted that beings like them couldn’t eat diamond. When Thide left his job to move to the CEZ, Garrad speculated that he had gone to seek his fortune on Dor.
Bright Aura Gem Therapy

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Bright Aura Gem Therapy is a pseudoscientific "alternative health" company based in the Coreworlds. It offers a range of crystals and crystal-based products which it claims have beneficial effects upon an individual's health.

In the year 2270, after the Centurions of Project Centennial began to send reports back to the Coreworlds from inside the Ele Dominion, Bright Aura Gem Therapy partnered with the AlTime News Channel to offer the publication's subscribers access to "unique hand-crafted crystals which will protect from the effects of the Ele Metanation", for ⍺25 per week. This claim was heavily caveated; the crystals' true effectiveness is unknown.
Drake Rentholme

Draik Rentholme is a renowned explorer from the Coreworlds. He was responsible for leading an expedition into the unknown galaxy beyond the Coreworlds Conglomerate’s frontier, following Project Centennial and the commercialisation of FTL travel.

Among other discoveries, Rentholme’s expedition was responsible for charting the planet Morithe, which went on to become a resort world in the Conglomerate Exploration Zone. Zoologists from his expedition identified the Desert Katoo as a species native to Morithe.
Mial's Bane

*Mial's Bane* is a starship of unknown design or origin, commonly held to be a 'ghost ship' travelling without a crew or captain. It is the subject of numerous stories told by spacers on the frontier of the Coreworlds and throughout the Conglomerate Exploration Zone. The truth behind these stories, if any, is unknown.
Goh III (Star)

Goh III is the central star of the Goh III system, located on the Medial Ring, within the Conglomerate Exploration Zone and on the fringes of the Iniir Protectorate. Only one planet, the resort world of Tyriss, orbited Goh III, and its proximity to the star gave the planet a tropical climate, with turbulent polar oceans and dramatic storms in place of ice caps and true winters.

Holidaymakers from the Coreworlds who visited resorts on Tyriss such as Sanctuarie enjoyed sunbathing in the light from Goh III.
Centurion 68

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As part of its Project Centennial mandate, Centurion 68’s trajectory carried it through the territories of the Empire of the Queil. Within Empire space, the Centurion visited the Zelkuun Eyrie orbital station, in which it found evidence that the Queils were developing the experimental military software known as the Martyr Protocol.

Among its observations, Centurion 68 noted that the base code of the Martyr Protocol closely resembles that of Project Centennial itself, specifically in that the central console’s ability to control conected starships mirrored the way in which the Project’s console on Aglostarros coordinated with the Centurions.

While attempting to leave Zelkuun Eyrie, Centurion 68 was engaged in combat by the Eyrie’s watchwarden, Corporal Talla Thrake. The Corporal’s flak rounds were unable to break through the Centurion’s ablative armour before it could regenerate, but an explosive shot to an exposed joint succeeded in briefly destroying the drone’s left arm. The limb soon began reconstructing itself.

Rather than letting Zelkuun Eyrie fall into the hands of the Centurion, Corporal Thrake destroyed the station with her last grenade. It is not currently known what happened to Centurion 68 following the incident.
Galactic Edge

The Galactic Edge is an area of space encompassing the furthest outer circumference of the galaxy.

The chemical compound Astrum-36 is found on the surface of certain worlds throughout the Galactic Edge, due to the absence of light and radiation from the Galactic Core.

Star systems on the Galactic Edge include Motherlode Prime and Groth. Eldori is a planet located in this region.
Garrad's Apartment Building

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The Aglostarros University Museum night guard Garrad previously lived in an apartment building on the planet Aglostarros, in the Coreworlds. It had multiple residents and multiple floors. The residents of the apartment directly above Garrad’s were known for playing music at night, which Garrad enjoyed falling asleep to. The building was also close to a deli.

Following the commercialisation of faster-than-light travel, many residents of the apartment building relocated to the colonies of the Conglomerate Exploration Zone, including the music-playing upstairs neighbours, the Foths, and eventually even Garrad himself.
Centurion 56

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As part of Project Centennial, Centurion 56 was one of multiple exploration drones to traverse the territories of the Empire of the Queil.

In 2270, fearing that the Centurions posed a threat to the security of their Empire, a Queil military operation in the Gordian Veldt attempted to detain Centurion 56 and Centurion 72 using experimental anti-Centurion munitions. The AlTime News Channel reported that the weaponry proved effective at destroying the drones, and was subsequently distributed to all member forces of the Trifold Union.

Later digital autopsies conducted by the Queil revealed that Centurion 56's software had been extensively patched by the Galactic Liberation of Wonder movement, using command codes which corresponded to the Curator of the Aglostarros University Museum.

Despite having been dismantled down to only their data cores, both Centurions 56 and 72 later broke out of containment by apparently rebuilding their entire bodily structures from components of the research station in which they were being held. Following the breakout, a source from GLoW publicly confessed to AlTime that they had hacked Centurions 56 and 72, but reported that the two units were now both out of their control. This incident prompted the Trifold Union to shift tactics from engaging the Centurions directly to relocating sensitive targets away from the drones' projected flight plans.
Lindellians

Lindellians are a species of sentient reptilian beings who are the founding and dominant lifeforms of the Lindellian civilisation. Members of this species commonly use gender-neutral pronouns.

The Ele Warrior and sergeant El-Q'rokar is a member of the Lindellian species, and was also part of Lindellian society before joining the Ele Metanation.
Conductor (Ele Mask)

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The Conductor 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, Speaker and Warrior. Like their counterparts, Conductor masks are created, using a glass shaper, from a seamless, opaque and polished material resembling black glass.

The Conductor mask is distinguished by its streamlined shape with few features. It corresponds to those individuals within Ele society who focus on administration and governance.

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

Upon arriving on the Ele 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.
El-Murth

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El-Murth is a member of the Ele Metanation, and as such resides within the borders of Ele Dominion. They wear the Warrior mask, and serve in an Excision Team along with El-Morior and El-Dreefi.

In the year 2270, after receiving a dispensation from the Ele Congregate, El-Murth and their team travelled to the conservation world El-Saire. There, they hoped to capture one of Project Centennial's Centurions for analysis, to determine what was causing the probes to unilaterally attack Ele populations. El-Dreefi and El-Murth acted as a scouting party to determine the Centurion's location, after which El-Morior used thought-threads to transfer in and trap the drone in an antipsychic cage. El-Murth was responsible for signalling El-Morior to approach, although they suspected that the capture was "too easy".
El-Endelle's Apartment Building

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As with most new members of the Ele Metanation, former Aglostarros University Museum Curator Endelle Stroth was assigned to live in an apartment building upon arriving on the Ele Dominion's capital world of El-Kera, in the year 2270. The building is located in the city of Korus.

The apartments in the building each have doors made from olive-green wood and windows with blinds. Among other details, the apartment beds come with bedsheets as standard, which Stroth remarked were a vast improvement on her living conditions while travelling aboard the *Looking Glass*. There are mirrors fitted in the bathrooms. The building also has a small communal courtyard in which a number of nere trees grow, whose scent Stroth could smell from her apartment.

Like most such places in the Ele Dominion, the nature of the Metanation is such that the apartment building has a very close-knit community. The residents of the building regularly meet to enjoy hearty meals and each other's company. Among Stroth's neighbours in the building are El-Sondur and her twin children (one of whom is named El-Sona), the painter El-Jevier and the lawyer El-Ineol.

While learning from El-Q'rokar how to access Ele thought-threads, Stroth focused on her memories of the apartment building and her personal connection to its residents in order to travel there instantaneously from the planetoid El-Phyyr. Upon successfully doing so, the sound of El-Sondur's children playing in the building's courtyard was one of the first sounds she heard.

Like most local communities within the Ele Metanation, the building is served by its own venue dedicated to regularly taking the Feast of Elforsht. Namely, inhabitants of this block convene at the Elorra Banquet Hall.
Magnetised Particle Field

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The magnetised particle field is a type of barrier technology favoured by luxury resorts operating on resort worlds such as Morithe and Tyriss. A perimeter of magnetised particle fields can protect such resorts from predators such as aradogs and environmental hazards, while remaining almost invisible from the inside. This allows guests within the fields’ protection to continue sunbathing without obstruction. When a creature or object hits against the field, it makes an electric sizzle noise. Magnetised particle fields are also employed by some starships, including the *Looking Glass*, to defend against ship-to-ship attacks such as barrages of missiles.

Magnetised particle field barriers are powered by generators, but these can give out if the fields are put under too much strain. Scientists working for Intrepid reported that the fields were simply not designed to withstand more than a hundred creatures applying pressure simultaneously, as occurred when a pack of aradogs broke into the Sanctuarie resort on Tyriss.

Multiple studies later found that high-frequency sounds emitted by magnetised particle fields could provoke aggression in certain animals, but Intrepid refuted these findings.
Ardus Lyn

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Ardus Lyn is a male citizen of the Coreworlds and the current CEO of Veldt Star Industries. He is based at the company's headquarters on Ourinia, a planet in the Coreworlds.

As part of his duties as CEO, he hosted a keynote conference on Ourinia in 2267, in which he announced Veldt Star Industries’ development of the AIM Drive and the release of its Pantheon Collection of faster-than-light starships.

In 2270, Lyn was the subject of a showcase interview by the AlTime News Channel. In the feature, he spoke about the cost of commercialising scientific advancements.

The same year, Lyn gave another keynote unveiling Veldt's new Eidolon Collection, a range of starships which, controversially, included built-in weapons systems and greater defences. In the address, Lyn cited the Empire of the Queil, Ele Dominion and Galactic Liberation of Wonder movements as growing threats from which the public wanted to feel safe and protected, justifying the creation of a more combat-focused range.
Manifesto for the Liberation of Wonder

The Manifesto for the Liberation of Wonder is the founding document of the Galactic Liberation of Wonder movement. In summary, it sets out their belief that the wonders of the galaxy should be freely available for all citizens to experience, and not - as they perceive - locked away by private collectors or the ARK Mandate, or commercialised by interstellar tour companies such as Intrepid.

The text of the Manifesto is as follows:

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The Manifesto was disseminated to citizens of the Coreworlds on the AlTime News Network following GLoW’s campaign of hijacking numerous ARK starships, including the *Venture*.
Fields of Elkre

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The Fields of Elkre are the largest and most popular park located within the walls of Korus, the nominal capital city of the Ele Dominion, on El-Kera. It is named for Elkre, a figure known vaguely to citizens of Korus as a renowned hero of Ele history.

The park's design reflect the synthesis of the first cultures to join the Ele Metanation, with plants native to El-Kera lining the southernmost border and subsequent northward rows, on a gradual incline, representing the ecologies of the Xyll, the Foros Cluster, the Tuyen and the Vildarne Exiles. Over centuries, new members of the Metanation have added samples of flora from their own worlds where possible, and consequently the Fields of Elkre have transformed into both a thriving botanical garden and an ever-strengthening symbol of trans-galactic unity.

To accommodate such an eclectic mix of specimens, the Fields must be carefully monitored by botanists and automated attendants, lest one species prove to be harmful to another or to the ecology of El-Kera at large. Following the propagation of nere trees across the planet's surface, Ele scientists are particularly wary of potential invasive species. For this reason, each new plant is carefully monitored in a laboratory and engineered to eliminate undesired properties before it is introduced into the park itself.

Representing a gift from the Tuyen, the flowering plant Opalescent Ven-of-Tuyn is just one of the many specimens present in the Fields of Elkre.

In the year 2270, after presenting her proposed solution for the Centurion attacks on Ele populations to the Ele Congregate, former Aglostarros University Museum Curator Endelle Stroth retired to the Fields of Elkre to wait for the Congregate's judgement. While there, she reunited with the former bounty hunter Tren Krellos, on considerably better terms than when they had parted.
CEO (Veldt Star Industries)

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Veldt Star Industries employs a number of staff members, including a CEO. Ardus Lyn occupied the position of CEO at Veldt at least between the years 2267 and 2270.

The CEO’s responsibilities include speaking to the press, particularly at keynote conferences such as those used to unveil the Pantheon Collection and Eidolon Collection.
Inx

Inx is one of the fictional protagonists of the Xun opera *The Fall of Exia*. They are the lover of Exne, the opera’s other leading role, and must face the complications that come from Exne being a scion of a rival noble family. Over the course of the opera, Inx and Exne struggle to remain together amidst both inter-familial turmoil and the ongoing siege of their home, the city of Exia.
Ambassador Rayan Tiller

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Rayan Tiller hails from the Coreworlds region and is an ambassador for the Coreworlds Conglomerate. He represented the Conglomerate at negotiations which would see the creation of the Trifold Union, at the Threshold of the Ninth Plane on Andar Prime. He has a suite within the refurbished monastery which he considers overly spartan for a temporary home, but he is impressed by the views from the suite’s windows. Tiller drinks coffee and carries a pocket mirror, which he uses to check his appearance.

Tiller made sure to have as much intelligence as possible on the other parties involved in the Union negotiations, which included the Empire of the Queil and the Iniir Protectorate. Tiller knew very little about the Ele, but suspected that he would have to tread carefully when dealing with them.

Following months of negotiations, Tiller was a signatory of the Trifold Union, and was responsible for announcing the agreement to the citizens of the Coreworlds. He reassured them that the Union would bring prosperity for everyone in the galaxy.

Tiller later met with the other key ambassadors of the Trifold Union and Aglostarros University Museum Curator Endelle Stroth, once more at the Threshold of the Ninth Plane. Tiller reassured Stroth that she was not on trial, but noted that the actions of the University of Aglostarros - including Project Centennial, Stroth’s personal feud with the Family Oramande, and the ARK Mandate - had put considerable pressure on the galactic political landscape. He hoped that the attendees of the meeting would be able to collaborate on solutions to these issues. Speaking to press during these negotiations, Tiller affirmed the Union’s commitment to seeking the best for all citizens, but declined to explain what their plans to secure the safety of the galaxy comprised. During the meeting, Tiller was visibly perturbed by the Ele ambassador’s insistence that the other members of the Union should visit the Dominion more.

In the year 2270, following the (ultimately unsuccessful) Queil operation to detain Centurions 56 and 72 in the Gordian Veldt which found that the probes' software had been extensively patched by the Galactic Liberation of Wonder movement, Tiller was quoted by the AlTime News Channel extending a hand of peace to the insurgents. The ambassador suggested that any recriminations against GLoW could be temporarily set aside in the interest of finding a solution to the Centurion problem.
Derth Cluster

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The Derth Cluster was a region of the galaxy once located in the Conglomerate Exploration Zone, close to the border with the Empire of the Queil. Queil records re-designated the area as [Terminal, Partial] when it became subject to the pull of a local black hole known as the Voiceless Scream.

When Centurion 35 visited the Derth Cluster as part of Project Centennial, it found that Forsaken Eighty was the only remaining planet in the system, and that the planet had only weeks left before succumbing to the singularity itself.

The ARK Mandate vessel *Venture*, having departed from the Derth Cluster, was later apprehended by the Galactic Liberation of Wonder en route through the nearby Nore Xi system to a local ARK waystation.
Roasted Chillen

Roasted chillen is a traditional culinary dish served in the Coreworlds. Its main ingredient is the cooked meat of the chillen, a livestock animal found on several planets of the Coreworlds, which is typically paired with complementary citrus fruit flavours.

The "Citrus Chillen" variety of ViCorp's tab-ration range is artificially flavoured to emulate the taste of a roasted chillen meal, including its citrus accompaniment.
TECHNOLOGY

# Index of Technology

* **Project Centennial**
	+ Centurions
* **Science & Systems**
	+ Astrum Injection Motor (AIM) Drive
	+ Astrum-36 Mining
	+ Faster-Than-Light Travel
	+ Haven-Calex 93
	+ Magnetised Particle Field
	+ Queil Astronet
		- AM-CommuteX 505
	+ Shaper's Song
	+ Starlane
	+ True Cloaking
* **Tools & Equipment**
	+ Antipsychic Cage
	+ Astrum Canister
	+ Colony Habitat
	+ Combi-Cleaner
	+ Glass Shaper
	+ 'Jawbreaker' Virus
	+ Limpet
	+ Shield Suit
	+ Spacesuit
* **Vehicles**
	+ Planetary Vehicles
		- Skimmer
	+ Starships
		- * 'Arrowhead'
			* CCS *First Among Equals*
			* Ele cargo transport
			* *The Gunmetal Gyre*
			* *Mial's Bane*
			* *Songbird*-Class Destroyer
			* *Vildel*-class Staryacht
		- Eidolon Collection
			* *Aeris*-Class Starship
			* *Halphoc*-Class Starship
			* *Helme*-Class Station
			* *Koren*-Class Starship
			* *Sapara*-Class Starship
		- Nomad Collection
		- Pantheon Collection
			* *Dothor*-Class Starship
			* *Estir*-Class Starship
				+ *Looking Glass*
			* *Lerucia*-Class Starship
			* *Zius*-Class Starship
				+ *Morithe's Promise*
* **Weapons**
	+ 'Heartbreaker' Bomb
	+ Kalamus Devastator
	+ Martyr Protocol
	+ Plasma Strobe
	+ Thermal Flack Launcher
El-Jevier

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El-Jevier is a member of the Ele Metanation, and resides in the city of Korus on El-Kera, the capital world of the Ele Dominion. By trade, he is a painter.

When former Aglostarros University Museum Curator Endelle Stroth, now going by the Ele name El-Endelle, moved into a small apartment building in Korus in 2270, El-Jevier was one of her neighbours. The two of them regularly participated in hearty communal meals and discussions together, along with other neighbours such as El-Ineol and El-Sondur.

El-Jevier remarked to newcomer Stroth that ambassador El-Deen, the first person she had met upon entering the Dominion, spoke with particular intensity about the Metanation and its dogma, and that this fervour was not common to most Ele.

When Stroth first successfully used Ele thought-threads to travel instantaneously to her apartment from the planetoid El-Phyyr, one of the personal connections she focused on was her friendship with El-Jevier.
Nore Xi System

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The Nore Xi system is a star system located in relatively close proximity to the Derth Cluster, which was notable for its destruction by the Voiceless Scream singularity.

The ARK Mandate starship *Venture* was believed destroyed in the Nore Xi system while travelling at FTL speed between the Derth Cluster, where its team had been assigned to retrieve endangered flora and fauna from the planet Forsaken Eighty, and a local ARK waystation. The Galactic Liberation of Wonder was labeled as the culprit.
Crystal Cerite Miners

Crystal Cerite miners are responsible for harvesting Crystal Cerite from the surface of the volcanic planet Harthoe, in the Serpentis Spiral Arm. They are employed by ViCorp, operate out of the orbital rig *Lodestone*, and are paid based on both the quantity and quality of Cerite they find.

The miners are organised into teams which each have a shared comm network. A team is led by a Shift Manager such as Allard. Each miner wears a shield suit to protect them from the hazardous environment on Harthoe, but these can sometimes be defective and unpleasant to wear.
El System

The El system is a star system located in the heart of the Ele Dominion, within sight of the El-Greev Nebulet. It has a single star, El, which is often referred to by its astrographical designation of S59f to avoid confusion.

The El system contains a number of orbiting celestial bodies, notably including the capital world of the Ele Dominion, El-Kera. The planetoid El-Phyyr can also be found at a much greater distance from El than its counterparts.

On an astronomical scale, the El system is proximate to the planet Tuyn, the Foros Cluster, the homeworlds of the Xyll and the now destroyed or uninhabitable world Vildarne.
Sapara-Class Starship

The *Sapara*-class starship is a model of starship produced by Veldt Star Industries at its shipyards on Ourinia, in the Coreworlds, for purchase by citizens of the Coreworlds.

The *Sapara*-class starship is part of the Eidolon Collection, Veldt's 2270 successor range to 2267's Pantheon Collection, which controversially focusses more on integrated weapons systems and greater defence. As such, the *Sapara*-class is marketed as a mid-sized frigate, designed to balance offence and defence and expected to become the mainstay of most military fleets. Along with its various combat systems, the *Sapara*-class is outfitted with an AIM Drive for faster-than-light travel, and the customisable modular design which has been a staple of Veldt's starships since the Nomad Collection.

Much like the Eidolon Collection's other larger models, the *Koren*-class cruiser and *Helme*-class orbital fortress, the *Sapara*-class is capable of housing and deploying a number of *Aeris*-class fighters.

The origin of the name *Sapara* is unknown, but given the predecessor Pantheon Collection's use of the names of deities, it is likely that this title also references mythology or folklore.

Along with the rest of the Eidolon Collection, the *Sapara*-class was unveiled by Veldt's CEO Ardus Lyn at a keynote event in 2270. Shortly after, the AlTime News Channel's Home & Ship section ran a feature showcasing the model's technical specifications with a "foldout" illustration.
Astrum-36

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Astrum-36 is a rare and highly volatile chemical compound found on the surface of certain planets at the far edge of the galaxy.

It is believed that the absence of light and radiation from the Galactic Core allows Astrum-36 to form naturally as a viscous, reflective and odourless liquid with a slight violet colouration. Such conditions would account for the compound’s scarcity among the Coreworlds. The conditions under which Astrum-36 occurs mean it cannot be synthesised, but studies predict that mining will cause minimal ecological disruption.

When exposed to an electrical charge, Astrum-36 exhibits an explosive reaction of a magnitude hitherto considered only theoretical. This means that, with the correct focusing apparatus, Astrum-36 can serve as a highly efficient fuel source for faster-than-light (FTL) travel.

As part of Project Centennial, Centurion 79 found oceans of Astrum-36 on otherwise barren planets in the system now designated Motherlode Prime.

Numerous fuel and energy corporations have shortlisted star systems in which to mine for Astrum-36, with promising candidates including both uninhabited systems such as the aforementioned Motherlode Prime, and settled worlds such as Eldori and Groth IV.

The mining of Astrum-36 is a simple process: crews of mining personnel lower racks of Astrum canisters into pools of Astrum-36, where the canisters automatically open to let in the fuel. When the canisters are full, they close again and the rack is retracted. After a brief rinse with disinfectant, the canisters are ready to use. Corporations such as Motherlode Mining and ViCorp employ teams of miners to carry out this process at compounds throughout the Galactic Edge.

Astrum-36 is a key component of the Astrum Injection Motor (AIM) Drive, a starship engine developed by Veldt Star Industries to achieve faster-than-light propulsion. The engine relies on Astrum-36, administered in canisters, as fuel.

Certain press reports later noted that Project Centennial’s discovery of Astrum-36 had placed the Aglostarros University Museum in a central role in galactic politics.

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."
Drace

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Orin Drace is an older male citizen of the Coreworlds and the husband of Erea Drace, a resident of Aglostarros.

Drace is a former employee of 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. The job was evidently not his first choice.

Drace is responsible for lowering Astrum canisters into pools of Astrum-36 in order to gather the liquid fuel. He wears a Motherlode Mining spacesuit and works in a group with Alther and their intern Umi. Drace enjoys teasing Alther and refers to her by the nickname “Al”.

Drace has a severe dislike of ViCorp personnel, whom he refers to as “Vies”. He is also unable to read stellar coordinates.

Sometime later, Drace left his work with Motherlode Mining to become an agent for the ARK Mandate, along with his colleagues Umi and Alther. Drace served as the leader of his ARK team, and captained the ARK vessel *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, Drace and his colleagues wear hazcon suits.

Drace was somewhat sobered by witnessing the demise of Forsaken Eighty, and when invited by his colleagues to say some parting words, he commented that he would celebrate that the planet ever existed rather than mourning its loss, as he considered entropy preferable to stasis.

Drace was later napping at the helm of the *Venture*, but awoke when the vessel was hijacked by a limpet launched by the Galactic Liberation of Wonder movement. After warning that the crew was armed and hostile to hijackers, Drace later surrendered when GLoW threatened to detonate the limpet, and ordered the ship to turn to the coordinates provided. Later reports of the incident held that the *Venture* had been destroyed, with Drace and all others aboard killed as a result.

The loss was commemorated at a small memorial ceremony on Aglostarros, at which Drace’s apparently widowed wife callen upon the Aglostarros University Museum to bring an end to the ARK Mandate, despite its good intentions. However, though presumed dead in the Coreworlds, Drace and the other crew of the *Venture* were in truth taken to GLoW’s headquarters.
Medial Ring

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The Medial Ring is an area of the galaxy comprising a wide band of space circling the Galactic Core, approximately equidistant between the Galactic Core and the Galactic Edge.

Following the commercialisation of FTL travel, the Conglomerate Exploration Zone extended into the Medial Ring, where a number of resort worlds such as Tyriss were established. The territory of the Iniir Protectorate is also located within the Medial Ring.

The Galactic Liberation of Wonder organisation is known to focus much of its activity against the ARK Mandate on star systems along the Medial Ring. One such system is Serinyr, in which the planet Orakle was held to be the only source of the mineral Auricium until its destruction at the hands of its native Viriath Imperium.
'KilJaron'

'KilJaron' are a celebrity couple who are popular among citizens of the Coreworlds. The name 'KilJaron' is a portmanteau of the two partners' names.

In the year 2270, 'KilJaron' was the subject of a notable scandal. It was unknown who brought the scandal to light or for what reason, but it was a popular topic for discussion in the gossip pages of the AlTime News Channel.
"Leafy Beans" (Tab-Ration)

"Leafy Beans" is a common flavour of tab-rations, a range of meal replacement tablets developed and patented by ViCorp. Like all tab-rations, "Leafy Beans" tablets resemble one-centimetre circles for oral ingestion.

"Leafy Beans" is distinguished by its green colouration and its artificial flavouring, which emulates the taste of a traditional Coreworlds salad dish combining a variety of legumes and edible leaves.
Andarran Soul Tether

The Andarran Soul Tether is a simple charm bracelet, comprising interlocking hexagonal loops sculpted from blue translucent crystal in varying shades. The central charm, carved from the same material, resembles a stylised Andarran skull with a roughly hexagonal cranium.

The Soul Tether is one of few possessions permitted to monks from the Order of the Ninth Plane, and is traditionally worn around the upper left wrist. The Tether is said to ensure that the astral self always returns to the physical body after extended periods of meditation. These claims are difficult to verify, but Centurion 44 did report that the charms glowed with varying intensity during meditation, which could correspond to mental activity or something less quantifiable.

Curiously, when Centurion 44 visited the Order at their monasteries in the Andarra system, as part of Project Centennial, worshippers gifted the Centurion with its own Soul Tether despite its synthetic nature. Unfortunately, after several attempts, the Centurion could not cause the charm of its Soul Tether to illuminate.

The nature of the crystal used to craft the Soul Tether remains a closely guarded secret, and the Order has refused offers by entrepreneurs to market the bracelets to tourists. A small trade in counterfeit Soul Tethers has emerged, though this is frowned upon by most Coreworlds citizens.
Andarrans

Andarrans are a species of sentient aliens native to the Andarra system. Andar Prime is the capital world of their civilisation. They are physically identifiable by the hexagonal craniums of their skulls and their four arms.

Some Andarrans are members the Order of the Ninth Plane, a pacifist order of monks with monasteries throughout the Andarra system. These Andarrans are known to wear Soul Tethers on their upper left wrists.