Mageia

**Mageia** was an arid terrestrial planet in the Cassiopeia Galaxy entirely covered in canyons and badlands. It was the homeworld of the Mageians and was particularly famous for its thousand moons.

## Description

The planet Mageia was a rocky world located within the Gold Standard Sector of the Cassiopeia Galaxy, several hundred parsecs away from the southern border between the Outer Core and Inner Core. While Mageia was the only planet orbiting its star, a thousand moons—all of varying sizes—orbited Mageia.

Mageia was often argued to be the birthplace of all runestones, due to the abundance of runestones found within the planet's crust and its thousand moons. The planet's surface was comprised of arid canyons and badlands, with the only sources of water having been underground lakes and the conjuring of water through the use of powerful magic.

By the sixth millennium ASA, countless runestone mines decorated the planet's dry surface. Cities were able to thrive by using powerful magic to sustain a comfortable living for the planet's native inhabitants.

### Government

The **Mageian Republic** was a powerful polity that served as the centralized planetary government of Mageia. While the name of the republic had been used for several thousands of years, different types of governing polities used the name "Mageian Republic" throughout the planet's history:

* Despite its use of the word "republic", the Mageian Republic took the form of an **autocratic order** ruled solely by Sentinels and their keys to power beneath them. This autocracy ruled over Mageia for over hundreds of years.
* Sometime after the Cassiopeian Civil Wars, the Mageian Republic took the form of a **parliamentary republic**, in which the executive branch of the government derived its legitimacy from the legislative branch, or the Mageian Congress.

## History

### Ancient History

Much of Mageia’s history had been long lost by the sixth millennium due to years of autocracy under past Sentinels. Any remnants of the planet's old history became lost through the centuries and replaced with endless mines within endless canyons.

### Political Transformation

Sometime after the end of the Cassiopeian Civil Wars of the 54th century ASA, Mageia underwent a political transition from an autocracy to something more closely resembling a democracy. Mass mining on Mageia was slowed down, with a more significant focus being placed upon the mining of Mageia's moons.

During the reign of the parliamentary republic, the Mageians also began to focus more on recovering their lost ancient history, although little was found throughout the course of hundreds of years.

## Inhabitants

The overwhelming majority of the population was comprised of the native Mageians. Many Mageians worked in the runestone and mining industries, whether it be in mines—collecting minerals, ores, and runestones, processing said minerals and ores in factories—or selling them for profit in high-end markets.

A minority of other sentient beings aside from Mageians, like Humans, also lived on the planet.

### Sentinels

Sentinel Mageia was gifted with the ability to turn inanimate objects into runestone. Most Mageian Sentinels worked closely with the Mageian Republic.

### Notable Figures

* **Rodra Bal** - the former navigator of the Quartz Squadron.
* **Qakari Kepre** - a Mageian-Human scribe and translator.