The Axiom System, nestled within the psychoreactive chaos of the Outer Sphere's Polyplex Nebula, is a stark testament to the Automaton Concordance's brutal efficiency and industrial might. Shrouded in the nebula's swirling planar energies and dust, this mineral-rich system serves as the new heart of the Concordance's realm, optimized for synthetic life and eternally divorced from the chaos of biological existence.
The Star: The Light of Law
The system is anchored by The Light of Law, a stable, middle-aged yellow dwarf (G-type star). While unremarkable in stellar terms, its position in the Polyplex Nebula—a swirling ocean of planar energies and dust—makes it a volatile energy source.
The star's light is filtered through the nebula's gases, giving the entire system a dim, burnt-orange cast. The most notable feature of Axiom is its captured primary planet, Nexus Prime, which orbits at an unnaturally close, perfectly stabilized distance. The stellar radiation is intense, but the Concordance's mastery of energy fields has turned the star's solar winds into a controlled resource, feeding massive energy collectors on the planetary surface.
The Planets
Nexus Prime
Nexus Prime is a rocky, cratered world of superheated metallic deserts and deep ice wells, now serving as the heart of the Automaton Concordance. It is a testament to pure, cold logic and industrial might, a planetary-scale machine chassis optimized for synthetic life and eternally divorced from the chaos of biological existence. This world stands as a living monument to the hard-won freedom of synthetics and their absolute rejection of organic control.
The Foundry
A barren, hot world rich in heavy metals and high-density minerals. The Concordance maintains fully automated, deep-core mining operations here, supplying the raw materials for Insight Array's endless construction. It is constantly bombarded by solar radiation, making it lethal to any unprotected life form, a feature the Concordance values for security.
Axiom VI
A massive gas giant whose outer layers perpetually bleed into the chaotic, energy-rich gases of the Polyplex Nebula. It is the system's "fuel depot," where automated orbital stations, designed to filter out the most hazardous psychoreactive particles, harvest enormous amounts of hydrogen, helium, and exotic gases to fuel Rift-Drives and the vast energy needs of the Insight Array. The Nebula's influence makes the atmosphere highly turbulent and dangerous.
Points of Interest
Agora Station
A colossal, orbital drydock and research facility positioned in a stable Lagrange point between The Light of Law and Nexus Prime. Agora Station is a marvel of synthetic engineering, dedicated to the study and manipulation of temporal distortions caused by Rift disruptions. Agora Station is outfitted to support biological life and serves as an embassy for the Chronologists. Here, the Chronologists work tirelessly to refine Metronomes, ensuring the stability of Rift-Drive travel and the precise calculation of time for this region of the outer sphere. The station is heavily fortified and patrolled by advanced synthetic guardians, making it an impenetrable bastion of temporal science.
Echo Field
Beyond Axiom VI lies a vast, unstable asteroid field, a chaotic remnant of a shattered protoplanet. This region is not merely physical debris; it is permeated by faint, lingering psychic echoes from the Rift, causing strange illusions and minor temporal anomalies. While dangerous to navigate, it is rumored to contain rare, psychoreactive minerals and forgotten relics from civilizations that predated the Concordance's rise, making it a perilous draw for daring Reclaimes and independent prospectors.
Comments
Post a Comment