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Ether

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  • Astral Ether

    Space is filled with Astral Ether: an energetic, magical and informational medium connected to life force. Ships travel by accounting for its density, currents, storms and navigational nodes.

  • Ether Distillate

    Human civilization treats distillate as strategic fuel, a means of extending existence, a source of power and an exceptionally rare commodity. The principal human monopoly on pure distillate is associated with the Aeteris Coration. The Myurids can produce small quantities through the weaving of their strongest Weaver and have used it only to save Weavers mummified by an error in weaving.

  • Anti-Ether

    The only known source of true Anti-Ether is Cerberus, guardian of Morven’s Crypt of Forgotten Codes. Anti-Ether causes temporal freezing of biological tissue. Without the timely administration of a full dose of pure distillate, the organism loses cohesion while the nervous system dies last.

Factions

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  • Republic

    The Republic is formally a civilian state but in practice a plutocratic-religious regime. Real power belongs to those who control capital, Ether, distillate, infrastructure, fleets, production and the favor of the Inquisition; public neural-implant voting is a loyalty spectacle rather than a decision-making mechanism.

Planets

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  • Meridian

    Humanity’s homeworld and the political center of the Republic. Its deliberately neutral administrative name expresses the human claim that their world is the central point of the known system.

  • Liavel

    The Myurid homeworld. Before the human invasion, its surface appeared predominantly turquoise because of the color of its grasses, foliage and forests.

  • Halmskar

    The Grimn homeworld. Its gravity is approximately twice that of Meridian, shaping the short, stocky and overload-resistant Grimn physique.

Corations

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  • Coration

    A Coration is not an ordinary corporation but a sovereign civilizational structure with territories, population, law, armies, fleets, technologies and a dynastic or corporate core.

  • Morven Coration

    The Morven Coration specializes in heavy industry, extraction, implants and prostheses, mechs, heavy computing, blood runes and armored forces. Morven owns the Crypt of Forgotten Codes.

  • Eidolon Coration

    The Eidolon Coration is associated with neon megacities, media, surveillance, information Weaving, artificial dreams, synthetic narcotics, illusions and perception management.

  • Aeteris Coration

    The Aeteris Coration controls Ether purification, distillate production and distribution, elite bodies, orbital property, baroque-steampunk precision technology, soul transfer and the extension of elite existence.