Ruins of Collena
The Regalti left their world in mass numbers around 350 years ago in an event known as the Exodus. It didn't happen all at once, taking around 50 years for 95 percent of the Regalti population to go live in space. This left Planet Collena an almost entirely empty world. Even today, barely a billion people call the world home, and there are many tens of thousands of ruined structures all over the planet.
In the Nation of Vefaria, the Fevarik Regalti went from over 500 million people to under 10 million in 50 years, and even today, barely 25 million still live there. All of the nation's major cities except the capital are in ruins. The Industrial centers are scrap metal. The Shipyards are ship graveyards now. Even large swaths of farmland were abandoned and have regrown into wild forests. Several dams have burst and the flows of rivers have been corrected.
Even 350 years later, travelling through some parts of the country are like driving through a post apocalyptic wasteland. In the coastal city of Emnil-Wreth, gigantic skyscrapers of stone and glass still stand in some parts of city, visible for miles as a reminder of a once great civilization that left their home for even greater heights.
On the old border with Arljei to the North, the giant steel and concrete wall that stood between it and Vefaria is mostly torn down. The sections that still stand are visible from space as gray blights on the otherwise completely green landscape. Arljei doesn't even exist as a separate anymore, its pieces having been absorbed into Vefari some time ago, though even fewer people live there and the country is now a vast wilderness.
It seems like the only thing that was saved from being abandoned were mostly temples and religious centers, as well as smaller towns and villages with people that had no interest in living in space.
The country's capital city, Barun-Deth, was also spared. the abandoned sections of town were mostly leveled and all the extra space was turned into parkland or given to the city's many shrines and temples to maintain. The City also still has the Imperial Palace, said to be one of the oldest structures still standing on Collena, though 99% of that existing structure has been overhauled and replaced over time.
Author's Note
Alot of information in this article existed in pieces on various other articles and variables, so I decided to bring it all together here for future expansion. I rewrote most of it and added new information. Also, whenver I make a specific structure or ruin, I will be adding it to a list here, which is the real purpose of this article.... I'll format this to look better and have images at some point in the future...
Preserving the ruins
No attempt is made to preserve the ruins in any part of the world. There just aren't enough people to maintain that many structures. Most people live about as close together as they always do, but in towns and villages that are separated by dozens or hundreds of miles instead of a few.
The only exception is Argen, the Silver City. This city still has over 100 million people living there, over 10% of the world's population. The city is regularly expanded as new structures are built and old ones overhauled and it doesn't look to be slowing down.
for the rest of the world, the best the Regalti can do is document and preserve the ruins for future generations. That's where organizations like the Collena Preservation Society come in to play.
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