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	:The unsettling element comes from long-term obvervations – no people seem present in these cities, with only some animal life moving among them. Most of the natural predators and larger herbivores ignore the human-made strucutres entirely, shunning them for the wilder expanses. Though deserted, the cities seem timeless, never fading to wear. No radio or other broadcasts can be heard, save for a few automated messages of terrible quality. The only signal achieved from space is a greeting, welcoming newcomers to 'The Five Gardens of Byblos', and giving broken account of several landmarks. The only truly clear one, mentions “The Master Library of-” before cutting off – the outer belt natives tell stories of this Library, legends that it contains all the secrets to life, the heavens, and hell.		:The unsettling element comes from long-term obvervations – no people seem present in these cities, with only some animal life moving among them. Most of the natural predators and larger herbivores ignore the human-made strucutres entirely, shunning them for the wilder expanses. Though deserted, the cities seem timeless, never fading to wear. No radio or other broadcasts can be heard, save for a few automated messages of terrible quality. The only signal achieved from space is a greeting, welcoming newcomers to 'The Five Gardens of Byblos', and giving broken account of several landmarks. The only truly clear one, mentions “The Master Library of-” before cutting off – the outer belt natives tell stories of this Library, legends that it contains all the secrets to life, the heavens, and hell.
	:There are two moons orbitting Byblos, both awash in greenery, though lacking any oceans. One is largely like the main planet, possessing only a few visible structures largely the same as its parent. The second, however, is a tangled haze of aerial fungus, spewing off into space before fading as it goes dormant and freezes in vacuum. A few broken structures can be seen with proper radio-scanning, crushed by the plant life, but the overgrowth makes such studies difficult.		:There are two moons orbitting Byblos, both awash in greenery, though lacking any oceans. One is largely like the main planet, possessing only a few visible structures largely the same as its parent. The second, however, is a tangled haze of aerial fungus, spewing off into space before fading as it goes dormant and freezes in vacuum. A few broken structures can be seen with proper radio-scanning, crushed by the plant life, but the overgrowth makes such studies difficult.

			===Cracyi===
			:'''Explorer by''': Lokar
			:'''Described by''': Shrike
			:Once a smoky and all but uninhabitable volcanic world, in the distant past the Overculture turned its attention to the virgin globe. Deploying magma engines, terraforming towers and other esoteric machinery of vast scope, the world was tamed for Man. With rich volcanic soil, Cracyi became the breadbasket of local space and like so many other worlds, it was decimated in the War. With a population scattered mostly in farms and small towns with just a few major urban centers, it took a mere handful of dirty fission bombs exploding over the cities to irrevocably shatter technological civilization on Cracyi. A few biomechanoids were landed to deal with anyone foolish enough to try and salvage what they could from the wreckage of the cities, but otherwise Cracyi's unimportance saved it from a more thorough scouring.
			:Cut off from the galaxy, the survivors - of which there were many - turned inwards. Using their machinery while they still could, the Cracyians constructed vast numbers of fortified redoubts in the irregular rocky outcrops that seemingly grow out of the fertile plains like so many lost teeth. By the end of the first century post-isolation, Cracyi had collapsed into a crazy-quilt of independent feudal domains - some barely stretching to the horizon as seen from the local cragtop castle. This lasted for six centuries of complicated and often petty politics and warfare, with the slowly fading radioactivity of the former cities shunned as placed to avoid.
			:Cracyi's main landmass is in the southern hemisphere, with the continent of Pieniy centered on the mid-lattitudes and sprawling more than halfway around the globe. Much of this continent is one enormous plain, the famous volcanic whitesoils of Cracyi. The geography of Pieniy gives most of it a humid continental climate, with warm to hot summers and cold winters. Most of the rivers flow south to north and became natural conduits of commerce over the centuries. An overlapping chain of rocky islands extends north from the western periphery, crossing the equator before terminating in the smaller northern continent of Karpatok, a rocky and rugged landmass home to less than 1% of the planetary population. Seen from space, these form roughly the shape of a J on its side. A handful of uninhabited island chains and microcontinents dot the world-ocean.
			:While Karpatok and intervening islands were never substantially inhabited and consequently were heavily forested with old-growth timber even before the fall, Pieniy was comprehensively cultivated for centuries. The fall changed that; not only was the planetary population reduced - if not by a catastrophic amount - but there was no more need nor ability to export food off-world. Vast fields were simply abandoned and soon colonized by forest. Cracyi's landscape as of the Grunefelder recontact at the end of the seventh century AC was very much one of castles (often on stony hilltops) surrounded by or associated with towns which were in turn ringed by cultivated fields and pastures, surrounded in turn by forests with scattered trails and freeholds. Even today this still adequately describes Cracyi, though paved roads for groundcars have replaced mud or stone trails and cleared right-of-ways for power distribution lines cut across the interstitial wilderness.
			:Cracyi was 'discovered' by both Grunefelder and the Impiragh almost simultaneously and soon became a battleground between the two. For half a century the Impiragh occupied part of the eastern end of Pieniy and small-scale clashes between Impiragh and Cracyi/Grunefelder forces were common in the eastern plains. Today Cracyi is a staunch ally of Grunefelder, though one that still needs to import much of the highest-technology items despite the past century of technological catch-up. The very oldest Cracyi centenarians (having taken advantage of Grunefelder medicines) can still recall using muskets as youths, while today Cracyi is known more for a proud tradition of 'mech-fighting power troops.

	===FURY-10 'Pasargadae'===		===FURY-10 'Pasargadae'===
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	:Conveniently situated in the goldilocks zone, the fourth planet is a life-bearing terrestrial world with abundant variety of flora and fauna although it is currently uninhabited by sentient beings. The survey team, however, picked up a minor pre-Event presence on one of its continents: a long abandoned city-sized settlement that remained surprisingly intact despite having been mostly swallowed up by the wilderness. The archeological team that went down to explore the ruin was able to date it at around 11,000 years old, and their further examinations led them to conclude that this place used to be a research and development location, abandoned when the corporation got busted for cooking the books and subsequently dissolved shortly after declaring bankruptcy. Their conclusion was further confirmed when they found a graffiti scrawled inside one of the buildings, most likely done by an angry employee, and it was later translated as 'Thank, you greedy bastards'. Unfortunately, they reported that the ruin was mostly stripped by its original occupants when they vacated the site a long time ago, and that they were unable to get into the ruin's underground levels despite their best efforts of trying to break through nearly impenetrable security barriers.		:Conveniently situated in the goldilocks zone, the fourth planet is a life-bearing terrestrial world with abundant variety of flora and fauna although it is currently uninhabited by sentient beings. The survey team, however, picked up a minor pre-Event presence on one of its continents: a long abandoned city-sized settlement that remained surprisingly intact despite having been mostly swallowed up by the wilderness. The archeological team that went down to explore the ruin was able to date it at around 11,000 years old, and their further examinations led them to conclude that this place used to be a research and development location, abandoned when the corporation got busted for cooking the books and subsequently dissolved shortly after declaring bankruptcy. Their conclusion was further confirmed when they found a graffiti scrawled inside one of the buildings, most likely done by an angry employee, and it was later translated as 'Thank, you greedy bastards'. Unfortunately, they reported that the ruin was mostly stripped by its original occupants when they vacated the site a long time ago, and that they were unable to get into the ruin's underground levels despite their best efforts of trying to break through nearly impenetrable security barriers.
	:The fifth planet, and the last from the sun, is a cold gas giant with four moons of vary sizes. It is the home to an automated long-range communication relay from the pre-Event days, and it has been left alone by pretty much everybody throughout time due to the value it bring to this region of space.		:The fifth planet, and the last from the sun, is a cold gas giant with four moons of vary sizes. It is the home to an automated long-range communication relay from the pre-Event days, and it has been left alone by pretty much everybody throughout time due to the value it bring to this region of space.

			===Typhon-1 'Rubicon'===
			:'''Explorer by''': Rabiddog
			:'''Described by''': Shrike
			:An inviting system on the near side of the Far Cloud, the Rubicon system has a single yellow star and six planets; a large giant, three ice giants in the outer system, a superheated near-solar cinder and a waterworld in the habitable zone - Rubicon itself. Drifts of gas from the cloud form slowly shifting routes for migratory starlife, roughly paralleling the star current to PRISM-337.
			:Rubicon has two smallish continents lying roughly antipodal to one another, both crossing the equator. The remainder of the world is seas and oceans (locally, 'seas' are shallow while 'oceans' have depths measured in kilometers) broken by a large number of coral atolls and volcanic island chains. Rubicon has two small natural satellites, one barely large enough to gravitationally relax, the other not even that. A third, artificial satellite is an immense city-sized structure shaped rather like a sunflower; the flower component is a massive crystalline dome under which is an exquisitely cultivated city and the stalk contains various support hardware. This structure - Ill'ya - is gravitationally stabilized in geosynchronous medium orbit over the primary inhabited landmass. Ill'ya is the primary (and only) starport port and seat of government.
			:The government of Rubicon is known as the 'Biotech Masters'; this is in fact a serial mistranslation of the appropriate Rubicon term which, in Imperial, means more properly 'Masters of the direction of human events', instead of 'Masters of human life' or 'Masters of artificial living things'. This error has become commonly repeated; most Rubicans simply refer to them as 'The Masters'. The population is broken into several morphological groups, the two largest recognized ones being on Ill'ya and normally known as the 'Starborn' with the ones living on the surface or under the waters in the shallow seas commonly called the 'Seaborn'. All share a general hedonistic approach to life.
			:Rubican technology is highly advanced; almost everything they use is derived from their incredibly sophisticated biotechnology. This is not immediately obvious though, as they prefer (for aesthetic reasons, mostly) to use biological ''byproducts'' as opposed to actual living technology, save for the construction or repair phase. Most Rubican consumer items and structures will be constructed out of extremely strong crystals and metals, seamlessly grown into a single artistic whole.

	===Typhon-3 'Steel Yard'===		===Typhon-3 'Steel Yard'===
	:'''Explorer by''': ~~Silence~~		:'''Explorer by''': Rabiddog
	:'''Described by''': ~~Arc~~		:'''Described by''': Dream Omen
	:Typhoon 6 is a trinary star system, Typhoon A, B and C. Two Sol mass stars orbiting each other at the two AU distance and a third one a red dwarf orbiting Typhoon B. Typhoon B and C have no planets orbiting them, unlike them Typhoon A has four planets. Three of them are small rocky Earth like planet, while fourth one is a Neptune like gas giant.		:Typhoon 3 is a trinary star system, Typhoon A, B and C. Two Sol mass stars orbiting each other at the two AU distance and a third one a red dwarf orbiting Typhoon B. Typhoon B and C have no planets orbiting them, unlike them Typhoon A has four planets. Three of them are small rocky Earth like planet, while fourth one is a Neptune like gas giant.
	:Some of the rocky planets have interesting minerals, but thinking much more. The most fascinating feature of the star system is the mega structure left there by some ancient builder. The mega structure is in ruins now and is unclear how it still manages to remain in one piece, further research must be done. The structure is a ring around the entire trinary system. It still rotates in the same direction with the rest of the stars and planets. It's is clearly abandoned long ago. Some areas have holes the size of gas giants, some have things of unknown origin, type, or material sticking out of it. The most frightening thing are the evidence of space battles on a scale unimaginable by races of today.		:Some of the rocky planets have interesting minerals, but thinking much more. The most fascinating feature of the star system is the mega structure left there by some ancient builder. The mega structure is in ruins now and is unclear how it still manages to remain in one piece, further research must be done. The structure is a ring around the entire trinary system. It still rotates in the same direction with the rest of the stars and planets. It's is clearly abandoned long ago. Some areas have holes the size of gas giants, some have things of unknown origin, type, or material sticking out of it. The most frightening thing are the evidence of space battles on a scale unimaginable by races of today.

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	===BG-281 '~~Requiem~~'===		===BG-281 'Anomie'===
	:'''Explorer by''': Acatalepsy		:'''Explorer by''': Acatalepsy
	:'''Described by''': FBH		:'''Described by''': FBH

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	:The hold of these moderates is highly tenuous, however. Finally possessed of a relatively strong position vis-a-vis the nobility, the revolution's representatives are only now learning just how little these nobles understand about how the immortality treatments work or even where power in "their" society truly lies. A few of the highest nobles, caught between the demands of the populace and a mysterious fear, have begun to refer vaguely to some other intelligence or organization, largely inaccessible even to the nobles it appears to patronize, perhaps hidden deep in the planet's core or somewhere else in-system.		:The hold of these moderates is highly tenuous, however. Finally possessed of a relatively strong position vis-a-vis the nobility, the revolution's representatives are only now learning just how little these nobles understand about how the immortality treatments work or even where power in "their" society truly lies. A few of the highest nobles, caught between the demands of the populace and a mysterious fear, have begun to refer vaguely to some other intelligence or organization, largely inaccessible even to the nobles it appears to patronize, perhaps hidden deep in the planet's core or somewhere else in-system.
	:The situation is extremely precarious all around - the commoners are losing patience with the excuses of their representatives and the nobility, and even the threat of the mobs is doing little to dislodge the nobility from its reticence. What this mysterious other power could possibly be threatening with keeps many of the currently-ruling moderate revolutionaries up at night.		:The situation is extremely precarious all around - the commoners are losing patience with the excuses of their representatives and the nobility, and even the threat of the mobs is doing little to dislodge the nobility from its reticence. What this mysterious other power could possibly be threatening with keeps many of the currently-ruling moderate revolutionaries up at night.

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