Consecra

## Overview

Consecra is a planet in the Euan Principality, close to the border of the Providence sector. Sparsely populated, with low plant life and a thin atmosphere, Consecra is not well-suited to its inhabitance. The planet is notable for being formed under special and unintentional circumstances, due to one of the greatest industrial accidents in the Cloud.

Consecra's defining feature is its massive rings, which are unusually large for the planet's small size (Consecra's circumference is approximately the width of the ring itself). These were formed by the tragedy that created Consecra, where a warp-drive experiment went horribly wrong and caused two planets to intersect.

## Cities

### New Casteras

A mostly-faithful recreation of the former Casteras, New Casteras is a moderately populated metropolitan area on the largest piece of debris in Consecra's ring. With a respectable interplanetary marketplace and a well-off black market for salvaged warp tech.

### The Memorial

A staggeringly large area on the planet's surface, The Memorial is a giant smoothed section of the crust where the victims of the tragedy have been memorialized. While there are some businesses and plenty of people living in The Memorial, it is by no means a trading post or metropolis. Due to the efforts of individuals attempting to reclaim the planet, The Memorial and its outskirts possess great amounts of plant life, including flora native to the two planets as well as alien plant life meant to help reforesting efforts.

## History

Consecra was once two separate planets, named Selicoh and Konneburin. Konneburin was a barren planet, mostly utilized for mining. Selicoh, on the other hand, was a spacefaring planet with an ample presence in the intergalactic trade scene. Populated by the Selicians, it was a planet with a heavy cultural focus on art and creation.

The colonization rights to Konneburin were purchased by a major corporation as a testing ground for warp-drive technology. Early tests were encouraging, so a large-scale test was devised. By creating an interconnected lattice of warp cores across the entire planet, the corporation attempted to execute a warp of unprecedented size. Since Konneburin was unpopulated and had already had most of its resources depleted from earlier mining expenditures, it was deemed safe to attempt a warp. However, for an unknown reason, the test went wrong. Rumors attribute the test failure to a number of things, with unpredicted meteoric activity, industrial sabotage from a rival corporation, and divine intervention being popular reasons. Whatever the case, the warp occurred, but significantly off-course - through a one-in-a-million malign miracle, the new output space of Konneburin was not a cordoned-off area of Principality deep space, but rather the current location of the planet Selicoh. The resulting implosion immediately shattered most of both planets, with the only surviving Selicians being the ones who were off-world.

Another side effect of the botched warp was a rapid shift in local gravitational levels, which pulled a significant amount of debris together, forming the soon-to-be Consecra. The largest of the remaining pieces began to orbit the planet in a manner similar to moons. As the smallest pieces began to break apart and form rings, a coalition of individuals comprised of scholars, corporate representatives, and native Selicians decided to reinforce the larger pieces and set up bases on them as they waited for the planet's surface to cool. As time passed, infrastructure began to be re-established, albeit with some major changes to accommodate the new planetary formation. In the present, while infrastructure is not expected to be completed for several dozen years, towns and cities have formed, both on the rings and on the planet's surface.