The Evermoran Point

At the moment of separation, I felt any hope of surviving this drain away. Now in free fall, I watched helplessly as Artemis hurtled in the opposite direction, curiously inert and unresponsive. Then the optics turned to fire, filling my cabin with blazing light, and I lost sight of my partner. I had time for regret, to curse myself for approaching that terrible resonant anomaly. Eventually, I even had time to start getting impatient, and finally to start questioning my fall. I realized, just before the moment of impact, an improbable truth: we just punched through an atmosphere. This was a planet. - Journal of Finch Winslow, 33rd Investigative Squad

Summary

Once thought to a dying star, and formerly known as the Evermoran Point, this strange light in the sky now appears to have an altogether stranger origin. By looking at records predating the arrival of the IPV Paradise, it can be determined that the Evermoran Point appeared in the sky only after the vessel and Catalyst II crashed to the planet's surface. The "star" is not a true celestial body at all, but the spout-end of a type of resonant anomaly called a "resonance well". It was created when the IPV Paradise exited warp and collided with Catalyst II, kicking off a violent reaction that sent them both hurtling through time and space in non-linear movements, before finally sending them on a collision course with Etagard. It is theorized that Catalyst II's immense resonant energy ripped a hole through the fabric of multiple dimensions, creating a well of resonant energy that pulls nearby resonant objects and entities in before spitting them out over a point that crosses with Etagard's orbital path.

History

This resonant anomaly went largely ignored, written off as a mere star or planet, for thousands of years after first appearing in the sky. It would not be until another geometrid and human-piloted vessel passed through it while Etagard's orbital path happened to align that its true significance and identity became known. While the funnel end intersects with Etagard's orbit, the well itself not only inhabits a different point in space, it occupies a different universe in a different point of time altogether. It can be assumed that other resonant entities and objects have passed through before, but without Etagard in the immediate path, anything coming out would either fly away into space or, if said entity was capable, resume its own course.
So far, resonant entities have passed through and impacted Etagard three times total - the first being Catalyst II and the IPV Paradise, which created the resonance well; the second following suit thousands of years later, when an approaching Evermoran investigator and his geometrid partner became caught in the well's pull; and the third, a nearly catastrophic event wherein a large rogue geometrid was ejected from the Evermoran Point and crashed directly into New Indigo City (change name later), and only averted this disaster through repeatedly turning back time until it found a series of events that did not end in the total destruction of the city.

Alternative Name(s)

Catalyst's Resonant Anomaly, Resonance Well

Type

Wormhole