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Tena

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Tena is a citizen of the Coreworlds who lives and works on the planet Ourinia. She is a secretary for Mr Fezius, but she longs to be free from having to deal with her boss’s endless meetings, interviews and “guests”.

Tena was inspired to vacation on the newly-established resort world of Tyriss, in the Goh III system in the Medial Ring, after seeing a billboard advertising the planet outside her apartment on Ourinia. She hoped that the holiday would afford her some luxury, a little breathing space and a chance to be irresponsible for once, which Tena believed she deserved.

While at the resort on Tyriss, Tena enjoyed sunbathing in the light from Goh III, drinking cocktails and visiting the spa. However, she had also been forced by her mother to accompany and look after her eight-year-old cousin Mak, who demanded a lot of her attention. This annoyed Tena, but she did also genuinely care for the child. Tena had misgivings about the numbers of aradogs watching them from the other side of the resort’s magnetised particle perimeter.
Galactic Core

The Galactic Core is the area at the centre of the galaxy, which is densely populated by stars and their systems. The Coreworlds are located nearby.

The Galactic Core is a source of light and radiation which prevent Astrum-36 from forming naturally on the surface of planets.

The Galactic Core also serves as a natural meeting point for the larger galactic civilisations, such as the Coreworlds Conglomerate, the Ele Dominion and the Empire of the Queil. As such, systems such as Andarra regularly play host to diplomatic functions.
Centurion 87

As part of Project Centennial, Centurion 87 located, mapped and observed the activities of the Dothroi civilisation in the Dothor system.

It highlighted the Dothor Lightfields asteroid belt as a point of interest due to its unusually high concentration of magnesium which, when exposed to the heat and oxygen of geysers common to such asteroids, gave the Lightfields their eponymous intense, almost constant blue-tinted illumination.

Centurion 87’s sociological subroutines reported that certain of the native Dothroi consider the Lightfields to be a magical ward placed around their civilisation by the god-like being Dothor, after whom the local star is named. The Centurion was unable to find any evidence that this deity truly exists or ever previously existed, save for in the myths and scriptures of the Dothroi.
Apple Trout

**eng** | ру

* **Boats**
* **Air Tank**: Old Air Tank, Normal Air Tank, Big Air Tank, Fantastic Air Tank, Mega Air Tank, Fantastic Oxygen Tank, Air Tank, Air Generator
* **Coral ReefsDeep**: Breadfish, Goth, Nyafish, Poison Apple Trout, Specterfish, Zombiefish, Very Durish, Bulletfish, Cleanerfish, Cleanerfish
* **Ocean Cave**: Baloon Fish, Nome, Triang, Beta, Cardinal Fish, Dark Fish, Gire Goby, Fire Fish, Royal Grama, Water Fish, Pincer, Axolotl, Dino, Magging, Coralistar, Inga, Radish, Hermit, Baby Shark, Sour, Sharky, Ghost Fish, Small Gum Jellyfish, Gum Jellyfish, Giant Gum Jellyfish
* **Ocean CaveDeep**: Small Hippofish, Demonfish, Signalfish, Mermaid, Fishlith, Sailfish, Elder Magging, Termi, Big Jaw, Skull Teeth Jellyfish
* **Seaweed Region**: Bean Fish, Mone, Tangle, Chicken Fish, Pit Bull, Duck Fish, Helmet Fish, Sheep Fish, Smiley, Minnowa, Citrus, Discus, Football, Thom, Cow Fish, Lovely, Piranha, Baby Whale, Bigfoot, Big-Go, Salmon, Whaley, Dolphin, Small Hair Jellyfish, Hair Jellyfish, Giant Hair Jellyfish
* **Seaweed RegionDeep**: Bunnyfish, Dokebifish, Owlfish, Submariner Cat, Frankie, Devilfish, Snickershark, Dark Bigfoot, Scar Whale, Skull Hair Jellyfish
* **Glacial Area**: Anchobi, Gingerfish, Pengler, Deco, Snowmanfish, Gingerbread, Snowfish, Foxy, Harp Seal, Icefish, Woolfish, Crystalfish, Yeti, Elephant Seal, Mammo, Killer Whale, Turtlegloo, Small Muffler Jellyfish, Muffler Jellyfish, Big Muffler Jellyfish, Glacier Jellyfish, Unicorn Whale
* **Glacial AreaDeep**: Eyefish, Thiefish, Gazer, Jiangshifish, Wolfie, Yami, Vamfish, Witchfish, Blue Dragonfish, Trumpetfish, Skull Muffler Jellyfish
* **Catopia**: Bulb Fish, Coin Fish, Rock Fish, Goldfish, Ocquid, Cuttlefish, Boatie, Crow, Air Fish, Ad Fish, Marlin, Whale Shark, Bah Azutanga, Transcendacanth, Apollish, Fiendshark, Coral Whale
* **Catlantis**: Glum Fish, Winter Camellia Fish, Spring Camellia Fish, Dragonfly Fish, Halibut, Ginseng Fish, Mothfish, Pink Mothfish, Fossilfish, Garlic Mustard, Dumbopus, Seahorse, Mobius Seahorse, Blue Speedy, Green Speedy, Red Speedy, Round Beak, Shy Mimosa, Whiteshroom Island Fish, Rafflesia Fish, Mandarin Fish, Ruins Ocquid, Ruins Cuttlefish, Electric Eel, Leaf Seadragon, Flat Beak, Coelacanth, Polypterus, Small Ruins Jellyfish, Ruins Jellyfish, Big Ruins Jellyfish, Mahi-mahi, Manta Ray, Blue Grass Seadragon, Dunkleo, Hyneria, Mosasaurus, Leviathan

## Apple Trout

### Zone

Coral Reefs, Coral ReefsDeep, Catopia

A fish that lives its life on an apple. There is still debate about where the apple came from.

## Where to catch

* Coral Reefs, Waves 1-9
* Coral ReefsDeep, Waves 1-9
* Catopia, Waves 1-4, 6-9
Dothroi

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The Dothroi are a civilisation native to the planet Ordoth in the Dothor system, deep within the Drakonwing Expanse spiral arm.

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

Some Dothroi believe that the Dothor Lightfields were created by Dothor as a magical ward to protect their civilisation, and so consider the Lightfields sacred.

The Dothroi have several mining companies who operate among the asteroids of the Dothor Lightfields, shipping a variety of materials back to their homeworld of Ordoth. This brings the capitalists into conflict with the more religious Dothroi, sometimes resulting in major outbreaks of violence.

Centurion 87 observed and reported on the Dothroi as part of Project Centennial.

The Dothroi 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 Dothroi were a minor civilisation compared with the Coreworlds Conglomerate and the Empire of the Queil. Like the Eldori and the Rimbalan Bloc, they only sought to protect their own interests and didn’t have the inclination or resources to acquire more territory. Following the establishment of the Union, the Dothroi became one of its Vassal Territories.
2267

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# 2267

* Veldt Star Industries hosts a keynote conference at its headquarters on the planet Ourinia, in the Coreworlds. At this conference, Veldt CEO Ardus Lyn unveils the Pantheon Collection, the first ever range of FTL-capable starships.
Iniir

The Iniir are a spacefaring civilisation who make their home in the galaxy’s Medial Ring. The Iniir and their territories are governed by the Iniir Protectorate, which ultimately became a Vassal Territory of the Trifold Union.

Approximately five centuries before the arrival of Centurion 54 on the planet Tyriss in the Goh III system as part of Project Centennial, an Iniir starship crashed on the planet’s surface and released the predatory aradog species into the planet’s native ecosystem. Small enclaves of Iniir, descended from the crash survivors, could still be found across the planet when Centurion 54 visited, though they were generally insular and reclusive. The Iniir on Tyriss are led by Governor Stroga Noph.
Aneth Fracture

The Aneth Fracture is a little-known splinter group of the Order of the Ninth Plane, which now resides within the Halls of Aneth on the planet Kollian. According to the scriptures of both groups, the Fracture was exiled from the Order’s monasteries in the Andarra system because it believed that the Order’s stance of true pacifism and neutrality was inherently unethical, and therefore harmful to the astral self.

Legend tells that, after fleeing to a barren moon in the Andarra system, the approximately two dozen founding adherents of the Aneth Fracture used a fusion of their psychic energy and makeshift astrographical equipment to determine a path to their new home (or “destiny”, in some translations). The pocket credol is a refined and more widely available iteration of this wayfinding system, guiding new and prospective adherents from Andar Prime to the Halls of Aneth, along a path known as the Pilgrimage of Aneth.

It is said that the Aneth Fracture will provide protection and sanctuary within their halls to anyone who has completed the pilgrimage and wishes to do good in the galaxy. This has led the Fracture to host a number of charitable organisations, including the Batar’Xi Aradogs Home.
Goh III System

The Goh III system is a star system located in the Medial Ring of the galaxy, and within the Conglomerate Exploration Zone. It is named for its central star, Goh III. The system is located on the fringes of the territory governed by the Iniir Protectorate.

The Goh III system contains only one planet, the resort world Tyriss, around which the three moons Tyr, Dirit and Urse orbit.
Adenean Wine

Adenean Wine is an alcoholic beverage produced on the farming world of Adene, located in the Conglomerate Exploration Zone.

The wine was a favourite of Curator Endelle Stroth of the Aglostarros University Museum, who enjoyed a glass while reviewing research notes as the sun set on Aglostarros. She considered the drink a reward for a job well done.
Centurion 7

As part of Project Centennial, Centurion 7 visited the volcanic planet of Harthoe in the Serpentis Spiral Arm of the galaxy. There, it identified Crystal Cerite forming in the cracks and folds of the planet’s cooling lava fields.

Centurion 7 initially speculated that the crystals were a product of the heat and pressure of volcanic activity, but further analysis revealed that the Cerite was actually rapidly hardening excrement produced by swarms of near-microscopic insects, which fed on certain minerals found in lava floes.

Observations by both Centurion 7 and Aglostarros University Museum’s zoologists strongly suggested that these insects, known as Ceritians, instinctively moulded the Cerite deposits into geometric shapes to emulate the appearance of the volcanic rock on which they fed. This may serve as a form of camouflage against predators, though it was difficult to gauge how effective the disguise was.
Auricium

Auricium is an opalescent golden metal which is believed to be unique to the planet Orakle, in the Medial Ring star system of Serinyr. Coreworlds prospectors indicate that Orakle’s Auricium is unlike anything found on any other world so far, but recommend further surveying the Serinyr system for other deposits.

Auricium is one of the main components of the Sceptre of Viriath, believed to be a symbol of office of the Viriath Imperium. The Sceptre is inlaid with Auricium vine patters which run along the length of the staff, forming a spherical tree at its head with fruit of precious gemstones.
Locations

# Index of Locations

* **Region or Territory**
	+ Star System
		- Planet
			* Landmark
* **Cameyn Highway**
	+ - Cameyn
* **Conglomerate Exploration Zone**
	+ Derth Cluster
		- Forsaken Eighty
		- Voiceless Scream
	+ Nore Xi System
	+ Qana System
	+ Reush Cluster
	+ Tresh System
		- Tresh-I
		- Tresh-II
			* Tresh-II Supply Canal
	+ [Unspecified Systems]
		- Adene
		- Delephor
		- Dor
		- Indroskir
		- Kavann
		- Morithe
			* Oasis Hotel
		- Onerri
		- Varior
* **Coreworlds**
	+ Exo-Worlds
	+ [Unspecified Systems]
		- Aglostarros
			* Aglostarros University Museum
			* Gardolos Theatre
			* Garrad's Apartment Building
			* Mr Ellan's Deli
			* Oramande Aquarium
			* University of Aglostarros
		- Gil Tol
		- Oramande (Irin)
		- Ortekk
			* Derre's Auction House
		- Ourinia
			* Veldt Star Industries Headquarters
* **Drakonwing Expanse**
	+ Dothor System
		- Dothor (Star)
		- Dothor Lightfields
		- Ordoth
	+ Xu System
		- Xu Alpha
		- Xu Omega
		- Xunne
			* Exia
* **Ele Dominion**
	+ El System
		- El (Star)
		- El-Kera
			* El-Endelle's Apartment Building
			* El-Kera Pylons
			* Elorra Banquet Hall
			* Fields of Elkre
			* Greyghost Marches
			* Halls of the Ele Congregate
			* Korus
		- El-Phyyr
			* Silos
	+ Foros Cluster
	+ The Rhyzomic Expanse
		- * Branchtown
		- RHY57 (El-Desh)
	+ [Unspecified Systems]
		- Doresh Daar
		- El-Greev Nebulet
		- El-Ridiin
		- El-Saire
		- Tuyn
		- Vildarne
* **Empire of the Queil**
	+ Fer Sinistra System
		- Galeus
			* Kalere Roost
	+ Gordian Veldt
	+ Kyrrest Nebula
	+ Tempest System
		- Yvyr
	+ [Unspecified Systems]
		- [Unspecified Planet]
			* Zelkuun Eyrie
		- Kidan
			* Union Defence Alliance Headquarters
		- Quen
* **Galactic Core**
	+ Andarra System
		- Andar Prime
			* Threshold of the Ninth Plane
	+ [Unspecified System]
		- Kollian
			* Batar'Xi Aradogs Home
			* Galactic Liberation of Wonder Headquarters
			* Halls of Aneth
			* Pilgrimage of Aneth
* **Galactic Edge**
	+ Groth System
		- Groth IV
	+ Motherlode Prime System
	+ [Unspecified Systems]
		- Eldori
		- Incandescence
* **Medial Ring**
	+ Genn Archipelago
	+ Goh III System
		- Goh III (Star)
		- Tyriss
			* Dirit
			* Sanctuarie
			* Tyr
			* Urse
	+ Serinyr System
		- Orakle
			* Viriath Imperium
* **Serpentis Spiral Arm**
	+ Vire System
		- Veden
		- Vodan
	+ [Unspecified System]
		- Harthoe
			* *Lodestone*
* **'Uncharted Space'**
* **[Unspecified Region]**
	+ - * Cosmic Yarn
ARK Venture

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The *Venture* is one of several modified *Zius*-class starships used by the ARK Mandate to travel to endangered worlds, retrieve flora and fauna specimens and valuable artefacts, and transport them to specialised stations for safekeeping. The *Venture* is captained by Orin Drace, and crewed additionally by Alther and Umi.

Like all starships featured in Veldt Star Industries’ Pantheon Collection, the *Venture* is capable of faster-than-light travel. It has a basic sensor suite capable of detecting hull impacts and disturbances, and a comm which can be used by the captain to communicate with external sources from the vessel’s bridge.

While returning from a mission on the planet Forsaken Eighty, in the Derth Cluster, the *Venture* was commandeered in the Nore Xi system by a limpet launched by the Galactic Liberation of Wonder movement. The limpet device attatched to the starship’s hull, infiltrated its systems and provided new coordinates to which the crew reluctantly turned, after GLoW threatened that the limpet would explode.

Following the hijacking and the starship’s failure to check in with its destination, the *Venture* was believed destroyed by the Aglostarros University Museum personnel responsible for overseeing the ARK Mandate. Though no wreckage was found along the vessel’s flight path, astroforensics hypothesised that the *Venture* could simply have disintegrated as it was travelling at FTL speed. It was the sixth such vessel to have disappeared at the hands of GLoW.

The crew of the *Venture*, believed dead, were commemorated at a small memorial event on Aglostarros, at which Erea Drace spoke out against the well-intentioned folly of the ARK Mandate.
On Adaptive Programming

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*On Adaptive Programming* is a thesis written by Argil Stroth, a Professor at the University of Aglostarros and the great-grandfather of former Aglostarros University Museum Curator Endelle Stroth. The thesis is Argil Stroth's best known work, and proved foundational to the development of self-evolving but non-sentient software in the Coreworlds. In the paper's abstract, Stroth wrote that "programming is the art of writing rules that cannot be broken, knowing that they will eventually be bent."

The concepts put forward in *On Adaptive Programming* were a formative part of developing the adaptive survival subroutines installed in Project Centennial's Centurion probes, and this led to Argil Stroth's recruitment into the Project team on a permanent basis.

In the year 2270, Endelle Stroth cited *On Adaptive Programming* upon learning that the adaptive survival systems of the Centurions had rendered them paranoid, causing them to lash out against the Ele Metanation. She wondered if Argil would change anything about his work if he knew that the probes he helped design would one day develop genocidal intent.
Galeus

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Galeus is a rural planet located in the Fer Sinistra star system, on the Galactic Edge and among the outer territories of the Empire of the Queil. It is primarily known as a source of keemeal, a staple food of the Queil Empire, and as such its terrain is characterised by fields of keeflowers. Copses of gana trees are also common.

The weather on Galeus is typically fair, with clear night skies, but the planet is occasionally visited by meteor showers.

For keeseed farmers such as Arl, life on Galeus is remarkably peaceful. Its neighbouring worlds and systems present more lucrative targets for raiders, there is little to draw in tourists or commuters, and the Empire’s bureaucrats are reluctant to interfere with a vital source of keemeal. The planet is also defended by a small garrison of Queil soldiers, operating from the Kalere Roost compound and presided over by Planetary Monitor Torth. This small military presence is proven to reassure the population that they are safe from any threats.

Keeflower farmers typically navigate the vast fields of Galeus using skimmers.

As part of Project Centennial, Galeus was visited by Centurion 13, one of several Queil worlds to play host to a Centurion. Centurion 13 landed in a keeflower field, where it was found by Arl and later drew suspicion after mapping and analysing Kalere Roost with some accuracy.
Immus Omn

Immus Omn is an Iniir theatrical director who lives and works in the Coreworlds. In 2270, they produced the drama *The Sorrows of Kor'Tor*, which went on to lead the nominations for that year's Celebration of Performing and Televised Arts (COPTA) Awards.

In an exclusive spotlight interview with the AlTime News Channel, as part of the platform's 22-page COPTA nominations coverage, Omn explained that *The Shadows of Kor'Tor* draws heavily upon their own lived experiences, and that this authenticity is what makes the work "beautiful".

Following the 2270 COPTAs, in which *The Sorrows of Kor'Tor* won many awards but Omn themself was snubbed, the director spoke out to demand that COPTA do more to recognise talent from the Vassal Territories.
Ele Congregate

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The Ele Congregate is the nominal central government of the Ele Dominion. Though much of the governance of the Dominion is carried out at a local level, with municipal action and decision-making conducted by means of telepathic consensus and delegation, the Congregate exists to represent the best interests of the Ele on the astropolitical scale. As such, it is responsible for guiding the Dominion's interactions with neighbouring civilisations such as the Empire of the Queil and the Coreworlds Conglomerate, and for addressing matters which affect the entire Dominion. The Congregate also serves as an informal source of leadership within the Ele Metanation.

The Congregate is comprised of five individual members, each wearing and representing one of the five traditional Ele masks: the Artisan, the Builder, the Conductor, the Speaker and the Warrior. It is believed that all five beings who sit on the Congregate are members of the Ele species.

The Congregate convenes in bespoke halls in the city of Korus, on the Ele Dominion's capital world, El-Kera.

When the Ele relocated their farming operations onto orbital hydroponics stations, former agrarian planets such as El-Saire were given over to nature and the conservation of rare flora and fauna. Any being seeking to set foot on these worlds required a dispensation from the Congregate itself.

In the year 2270, the Congregate summoned the former Curator of the Aglostarros University Museum, Endelle Stroth, to discuss its concerns regarding the Centurions of Project Centennial, which had recently entered the borders of the Ele Dominion. The Congregate reported that the Centurions had been attacking citizens of the Dominion without provocation, an assertion which worried Stroth, as she believed the probes would only resort to violence for self-defence. At her request, the Congregate agreed to have members of the Dominion's military attempt to capture a Centurion for study, dispatching an Excision Team of El-Dreefi, El-Morior and El-Murth to carry out the task.

After the 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. She confirmed to the Congregate that, due to this programming, the Centurions believed they had to destroy the Metanation in order to complete their mission.

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. With the Congregate's promise that she would be welcomed back to the Metanation upon her success, Stroth accepted the mission.
Speaker (Ele Congregate)

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

The Speaker convenes with its fellows (the Artisan, the Builder, the Conductor and the Warrior) 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 Speaker reported the Centurions' recent arrival in the Dominion, and that the results had been "troubling".

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.

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 Speaker noted that only Stroth had the knowledge and inclination to stop the Centurions permanently, a task which Stroth ultimately accepted.
Centurion 44

As part of Project Centennial, Centurion 44 visited the Andarra system, where it met and observed monks from the Order of the Ninth Plane in their monasteries.

The Centurion noted that the charms of the monks’ Soul Tethers glowed with varying intensity during meditation, which could correspond to mental activity or something less quantifiable.

Curiously, worshippers from the Order gifted Centurion 44 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.
Drakonwing Expanse

The Drakonwing Expanse is the Coreworlds Conglomerate’s name for one spiral arm of the galaxy. The area is so named because it resembles a large dragon’s wing in its general shape.

The Drakonwing Expanse encompasses multiple star systems, including Dothor, cradle of the Dothroi civilisation. Another notable system within the Drakonwing Expanse is the Xu system, in which the binary stars Xu Alpha and Xu Omega are orbited by at least one habitable world: the planet Xunne, from which the gel-based Xun species and its civilisation originate.
Desert Katoo

The Desert Katoo is a small, rodent-like reptile native to the desert planet of Morithe in the Conglomerate Exploration Zone. The Desert Katoo is characterised by its tough, segmented skin, arrow-shaped head and prehensile, whiskered snout. The creature is unusual among reptilian species in that it only births a single egg at a time, which it protects in a hardened pouch until hatching.

Close observation indicates that the Desert Katoo may be nocturnal, due to Morithe’s extreme daytime temperatures. The Desert Katoo typically buries beneath the sands to avoid the heat of the day, emerging at night to forage for food. The creature appears to be omnivorous, feeding on succulents and insects alike. It is unknown whether the Desert Katoo has any natural predators.

Zoologists of the Rentholme Expedition named the Desert Katoo based on its striking visual similarity to the mammalian Katoo, which is found on the plains of the coreworld Gil Tol. However, there is no evidence to indicate that the two species are in any way related.

The Desert Katoo has so far resisted domestication, due to its rapid burrowing speed and its defensiveness when young are threatened. However, the creature is prized by Morithe’s hotel operators, who profit from selling Katoo-hide clothing and accessories to guests. The eggs of the Desert Katoo are also considered a delicacy at the gourmet restaurants of these resorts, such as in beverages such as Katoonog. This has caused alarm among conservationists and animal rights campaigners, who are currently stretched thin due to the rapid expansion of the CEZ.

Early in the year 2270, the AlTime News Channel published an article listing seven "amazing" facts about the Desert Katoo, primarily targeting its younger readers. The feature's headline promised that the fifth item would be particularly surprising.
Skimmer

A skimmer is a hovering vehicle used in the Empire of the Queil. Among its purposes, it is used by keeflower farmers such as Arl to quickly traverse their vast fields. Arl’s model of skimmer included both a driver’s seat and a passenger seat.

Arl drove his skimmer on a late night sortie to investigate a perimeter breach in one of his fields, where he found the landing site of Centurion 13.
Prince Aster

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Aster is a member of the Queil species, and a minor Prince within the Empire of the Queil. He is a relation of the Empress, but only seventh in line to the throne at best. Aster serves as an ambassador for the Empire, and attended a diplomatic conference at the Threshold of the Ninth Plane on Andar Prime, during which the Trifold Union was created.

Ambassador Rayan Tiller privately dismissed Prince Aster as just a “blustering royal”.

When the Centurions of Project Centennial were sighted within the territories of the Queil Empire, Aster gave a statement from the capital world Quen expressing concern that the probes posed a security risk to the Empire, as well as to the Ele Dominion. Though the Aglostarros University Museum’s Curator, Endelle Stroth, attempted to reassure him that the Centurions came in peace and only wished to explore, Aster was troubled by how little the Museum actually knew about the probes’ capabilities.

At a meeting of the key ambassadors to the Trifold Union and Curator Stroth, once more at the Threshold of the Ninth Plane, Aster levelled much of the blame for the galaxy’s volatility at the feet of Stroth and her institute’s recent projects. Ultimately, however, he agreed to press forward and look for solutions rather than making accusations.

After Centurions began appearing to target Queil military assets and facilities, and responding with lethal and destructive force when opposed, Aster spoke out on behalf of the Empire, declaring that Queil military secrets were of no interest or relevance to the Coreworlds Conglomerate. Ultimately, the Centurions moved out of Queil space and towards the Ele Dominion, at which point Aster remarked that the Empire had successfully "weathered the storm", but still expected reparations from those responsible for the damage dealt by the probes.
'Uncharted Space'

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'Uncharted Space' is the name colloquially given to the relatively empty area of the galaxy between the borders of the Coreworlds Conglomerate's territory and the Ele Dominion. The sparseness of 'Uncharted Space' means that it is rarely travelled by anyone from the Coreworlds, the Ele or the Empire of the Queil, and that it remains an unknown in the records of the Trifold Union. However, as the former Aglostarros University Museum Curator Endelle Stroth noted in her personal diary, the title 'Uncharted Space' is a misnomer; there are likely numerous civilisations native to the region who have charted it extensively without coming into contact with member states of the Trifold Union.

Traversing 'Unknown Space' serves as a quieter backdoor between the edge of the Ele Dominion and the heart of the Coreworlds, including Aglostarros itself. The route is not widely monitored by authorities or bounty hunters, but is known to present its own dangers. Stroth and her companion, Tren Krellos, planned to take this route in the year 2270, to quickly reach Aglostarros and prevent the Centurions of Project Centennial from threatening the Ele Metanation.
Nomad Collection

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The Nomad Collection was a range of starships produced by Veldt Star Industries for citizens of the Coreworlds prior to the year 2267.

These starships are notable for their modular design which allows for easy customisation and modification to suit users’ needs. Examples of such modules include luxury quarters, expanded cargo bays and versatile heavy machinery platforms. This modular system received great acclaim when trialled as part of the Nomad Collection.

The starships of the Nomad Collection were eventually rendered obsolete by Veldt’s Pantheon Collection, which was unveiled at the company’s 2267 Keynote Conference. Unlike the new collection, the Nomad starships lacked AIM Drives and so were incapable of faster-than-light (FTL) travel. Consequently, they were discontinued shortly after.
Centurion 13

As part of Project Centennial, Centurion 13 visited the agrarian planet Galeus, in the Fer Sinistra star system on the outer edges of the Empire of the Queil. There, the Centurion landed in a keeflower field, tripping a perimeter breach alert which caused farmer Arl to investigate. Upon meeting Arl, Centurion 13 shifted from its glowing probe form into a humanoid, Queil-like form, reassuring the farmer that it came ‘seeking knowledge’. Arl found this incarnation of the Centurion harder to look at, due to its uncanny features which did not move to match its speech.

While on Galeus, Centurion 13 observed and analysed Kalere Roost, the planet’s small military garrison. Its scans briefly formed part of the Aglostarros University Museum’s Project Centennial exhibition, but their remarkable accuracy and detail meant they were soon redacted and then removed entirely at the behest of the Queil Empire.
Emret

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Emret is a member of the Galactic Liberation of Wonder movement. He acted as a guide to ARK Mandate agent Alther when she was taken to GLoW’s headquarters. Emret explained that GLoW only ever fights to disable ARK targets long enough to liberate the artefacts they carry, never to destroy, and that their ultimate goal is to rehome the relics with the people they were taken from, or with the nearest neighbouring civilisation that will treat the relics with respect.

Emret’s argument, along with his enthusiasm and soft-spoken manner, were enough to win over Alther to his perspective, as they both admired the Sceptre of Viriath.
Rentholme Expedition

The Rentholme Expedition was an exploratory mission led by Draik Rentholme beyond the frontier of the Coreworlds, following Project Centennial and the commercialisation of FTL travel.

The Rentholme Expedition was responsible for charting the planet Morithe, which later became a resort world in the Conglomerate Exploration Zone.

Zoologists from the Rentholme Expedition were responsible for identifying the Desert Katoo, a small, rodent-like reptile native to Morithe. 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.
Derth Drakonid

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A Derth Drakonid is a small reptilian creature native to planets in the now-defunct Derth Cluster, including Forsaken Eighty. When experiencing high stress or anxiety, the Drakonids tend to shed their scales.

A number of Drakonids were rescued from the surface of Forsaken Eighty, which had been terminally caught in the gravitational pull of a local black hole known as the Voiceless Scream, by an ARK Mandate team comprising Alther, Drace and Umi. The creatures were contained in a transparent crate which was loaded onto the team’s lander starship.
Emperor of the Queil

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Empress Harke is the Queil ruler, whose dominion spans the whole of the Empire of the Queil, a galactic civilisation which neighbours the territory of the Coreworlds Conglomerate. She has a number of descendants who serve as Princes of varying levels of significance, from her direct heirs through to minor relatives who serve as diplomats and envoys. Aster is one such minor Prince.

The Empress typically prefers to let diplomats such as Prince Aster speak for the Empire in most matters. However, when the Centurions of Project Centennial began appearing to target military assets and facilities within the Empire with lethal force, Empress Harke gave a rare statement of her own. In the address, she called upon the Coreworlds Conglomerate to repay their blood debt to the Queils.
Montreau Conservatory

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The Montreau Conservatory is a renowned institution based in the Coreworlds which specialises in providing intermediary agents, or proxies, to perform tasks on their employers’ behalf. One common use for Montreau’s proxies is to act as bidders at Derre’s Auction House, on the planet Ortekk. These proxies allow the true buyers of alien antiquities sold at Derre’s to remain anonymous.

One of Montreau Conservatory’s proxy agents was employed by the successful purchaser of the Compass Rose Cerite. The proxy subsequently informed the press that its client was thrilled to have purchased the unique Crystal Cerite specimen and looked forward to publicly displaying it.

The Montreau Conservatory is retained by Baroness Dorn Oramande and her family, who maintain a controlling interest in the prestigious institute. The Baroness’ attendant Col typically serves as her liaison with the Conservatory. It was the Baroness who employed the Conservatory to acquire the Compass Rose Cerite at auction, and subsequently to request that all references to Crystal Cerite be removed from the Aglostarros University Museum’s Project Centennial exhibition. This request was denied, however.

Agents of the Montreau Conservatory were allegedly captured on security camera footage recovered from the ViCorp orbital mining rig *Lodestone*, shortly before the rig activated its AIM Drive and impacted the surface of Harthoe at faster-than-light speed, destroying both the rig and the planet outright. The implication of these rumours is that the *Lodestone*’s AIM Drive was deliberately saboutaged by the Montreau agents, rather than misfiring as a result of a malfunction as the official ruling holds. This has prompted further allegations that the Family Oramande may have a more direct hand in the Conservatory’s questionable work.

Press reports suggested that the Montreau Conservatory and their anonymous employers were among the many threats to galactic stability to be addressed at a meeting between representatives of the Trifold Union’s member states and AUM Curator Endelle Stroth, at the Threshold of the Ninth Plane on Andar Prime.
Arl

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Arl is a member of the Queil species and an inhabitant of the planet Galeus, in the Fer Sinistra system on the outer edges of the Empire of the Queil. Arl is employed by the Empire as a keeflower farmer, and enjoys the simple lifestyle which comes with the job.

Arl’s routine as a keeflower farmer involves tending to his expansive fields, delivering shipments of keeseeds off-planet and caring for his ‘flock’, or family. He doesn’t like any disruption to his routine, such as having to be out in his fields late at night, when he would rather be asleep.

Arl navigates his land using a skimmer and also owns a rifle, although he uses the weapon rarely enough that it still feels unnatural to carry.

Arl encountered Centurion 13 on Galeus after being alerted to a perimeter breach in one of his fields, caused by the Centurion’s landing. The farmer was scared by the probe, which moulded itself into a Queil-like form and attempted to reassure Arl that it only sought ‘knowledge’. The Centurion’s uncanny visage made it harder for Arl to look at than when it had more closely resembled a brightly glowing object.
Tungrin Tarei

Tungrin Tarei is a popular musician and one of the most well known members of the Dooth civilisation, a Vassal Territory of the Trifold Union.

In the year 2270, Tarei released a single titled *Devastate Me, Baby*, a controversial song which included thinly-veiled satire of the military posturing exhibited by the Empire of the Queil. The song's title makes reference to the Kalamus Devastator, an experimental weapon developed by the Queils in secret, which was unearthed by the Centurions of Project Centennial as they passed through the area.
Planetary Monitor Torth

Torth is a member of the Queil species, and a relatively minor player in the political structure of the Empire of the Queil. As the Planetary Monitor of the agrarian world Galeus in the Fer Sinistra system, Torth essentially serves as the planet’s governor or baron.

While present on Galeus, Torth operates from offices adjacent to Kalere Roost, the planet’s military garrison.
Dooth

The Dooth are a minor galactic civilisation located within the territory of either the Coreworlds Conglomerate or the Empire of the Queil. As such, it is considered one of the Trifold Union's Vassal Territories.

One of the best known members of Dooth society in the galaxy at large is the popular musician Tungrin Tarei, whose 2270 single *Devastate Me, Baby* was a vague satire of the military posturing within the Empire of the Queil.
Eldori (Planet)

Eldori is an inhabited planet which is located on the Galactic Edge. The native Eldori people speak the language Eldorian.

Eldori’s distance from the light and radiation of the Galactic Core makes it possible for the chemical compound Astrum-36 to form on the surface of the planet.

Eldori was identified by fuel and energy corporations from the Coreworlds Conglomerate as a promising candidate world on which to mine for Astrum-36. It was predicted that this mining would cause minimal ecological disruption on Eldori.
Thought-Threads

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Thought-threads are the individual strands of psychic energy which connect every member being of the Ele Metanation. As such, though these through-threads do not manifest in physical space, they conceptually form a vast and intricate web spanning the full area of the Ele Dominion.

Despite being an omnipresent and essential element of the Metanation's functionality, thought-threads are indistinct and "quiet" by default, so as not to overwhelm any individual member of the network. Accessing thought-threads requires effort and focus, which can be more difficult in areas of high population density such as the Ele capital world of El-Kera. However, on mostly uninhabited planets such as El-Phyyr, it is much easier for inexperienced members of the Metanation to isolate particular threads.

Thought-threads, when accessed, resemble fragments of speech transmitted without being verbalised. Tapping the web of thought-threads that comprises the Ele Metanation is the first step in unlocking some of its more supernatural qualities, such as telepathic communication and instantaneous travel across long distances.

The Ele navigate these thought-threads by focusing on their own sense-memories, personal connections and the minds of those most familiar to them, which helps to filter out the ambient noise of the Metanation.

In the year 2270, the former Curator of the Aglostarros University Museum, Endelle Stroth, and her mentor among the Ele, El-Q'rokar, travelled to the planetoid El-Phyyr to practice accessing Ele thought-threads in this way. Stroth was surprised by the use of conventional meditation methods in the process, but quickly learned the basics of visualising the network. El-Q'rokar subsequently directed Stroth to use her personal memories of El-Kera and her connections there to move physically across space and arrive at her apartment.
Vildarne

The planet Vildarne is or was located deep within the territory of the Ele Dominion, close in astronomical terms to the El system, the planet Tuyn, the Foros Cluster and the homeworlds of the Xyll.

Vildarne was once home to a society of spacefaring sentients, but was either destroyed or rendered uninhabitable in an event known as the Vildarne Cataclysm. The displaced survivors of the Cataclysm subsequently became known as the Vildarne Exiles. These Exiles soon encountered the Ele species, becoming one of the first groups to be integrated into the Ele Metanation.

Aspects of Vildarne's biome are now preserved within the Fields of Elkre, a botanical garden located in Korus, on the Ele capital world El-Kera.
Stan Marsh

Stan Marsh is a main character in the Microceleb AU and in South Park proper. He is a 27 year old B list industry plant rock star who preforms under the name "Crimson Dawn." He is signed with Universal Records and lives with his boyfriend Kyle in LA.

## Inspiration

Stan Marsh was inspired by Taylor Swift, Will Toledo, Pete Wentz, Brendon Urie, Olivia Rodrigo, and Kendall Roy from *Succession*. His relationship with Kyle Broflovski was loosely inspired by Taylor Swift's relationship with Matty Healy.

## Relationships

### Kyle Broflovski

Kyle Broflovski's is Stan's boyfriend. The two of them have been in a romantic relationship since high school, and they went to college in LA together. They went public with their relationship about 5 months after Stan came out publicly as gay, and the discourse ran high, as Fireside, Kyle's podcast, stood for a lot of things Stan Marsh, as a public figure and activist, stood against.

### Stan's PR

Stan has had many publicists. The first one was an 80 year old man hired after Stan dropped out of college who was casually homophobic and never picked up on Stan being gay. Retired in 2020. and Stan made a speech at his funeral despite the fact that he knew him for like 4 years.

The second was hired after Stan came out to do damage control. She handled stylegate poorly. but can’t be blamed for this. constantly stressed out, extremely online, submits positive rumors about all her clients to deuxmoi and tracks all their tags on instagram.

The third publicist started out meek and wide eyed but eventually developed a backbone and the ability to call Stan out on his bullshit. She later filed a report against him for gender discrimination.

The fourth had Stan one of her first clients ever and thought he’d be an exciting challenge. She quit one month in, and turned to alcohol.

His current publicist is a young woman who treats him like a misbehaving border collie and does not take him seriously.

## Trivia

* He is beloved by teenage girls.
* He (as Crimson Dawn) has opened for Fall Out Boy.
* His father, Randy Marsh, is his producer.
* He is the only main character without an eating disorder.
Tresh-I

Tresh-I is a planet of the Tresh system, located within the Conglomerate Exploration Zone. It is the lesser-known neighbour of Tresh-II, which serves as a key waypoint or terminus along the Tresh-II Supply Canal, an early starlane for the transport of natural resources.

In the era before the commercialisation of faster-than-light travel, Tresh-I was designated as an exo-world by the Coreworlds Conglomerate, and was 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-I's exo-world designation obsolete.
True Cloaking

'True Cloaking' is a semi-theoretical technology which renders objects invisible to electronic sensors and measures as well as natural forms of detection such as sight, sound and smell. The purpose of a true cloaking system is therefore to ensure that the object's presence is both unknown and indeed unknowable to any observer.

Such concealment is believed to be impossible to achieve, but some Project Centennial analysts have posited that the Ele Dominion diplomatic starship known as 'Arrowhead' incorporates a true cloaking system into the unusual fabric weave that covers its hull. Scientists of the Queil Empire have so far been unable to recreate this feature, if it exists.
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