Persephone

Persephone II is a verdant world, agreeable to my human constitution. Brilliant feathered beasts graze and hunt its rolling hills, and porpoiselike creatures float along the surface of the shorelines at dusk. I believe this is the home of my soul. Here is where I will stay.

-Herman Sawyer, founder of the monastic Order of the Sunset, in a 2617 letter to Sol III

Geography

Persephone is a black hole, a scar on the Milky Way caused by the greatest weapon ever employed: a singularity device. The young star was destroyed in 2846, collapsed into darkness, by the then-Republic of Alpha Centauri in order to destroy the commercial weapons construction platforms scattered throughout the star's asteroid belt. The destruction of the life-rich planet Persephone II—which was inhabited by a very small population of spiritualist humans and orcs, in addition to sub-sentient native life—was an unfortunate side effect. The sheer scale of the atrocity, and the seeming dearth of justification, led to the signing of the Sol Accords and the end of the Great War.

Fauna & Flora

Persephone II was rich in animal life, all species of which are now, of course, extinct. It is believed from documents originating from the Order of the Sunset that the planet was rich in grasses as well, which are rare even on planets with significant plantlike life.

Type

Black Hole

Related Historical Events

• 2846 C.E.
  Destruction of Persephone