- Breathable Atmosphere
- Hostile Biosphere (Metaspace Breaches)
- TL4
- Tens of Millions of Inhabitants
The Inheritor Alliance has a small realm on Saliv (0407). Saliv was a world of freak geography, floating temperate islands above a sea of various gasses rising from the tight compression at the planet's core. More interestingly, the planet occupies a region where the veil between realspace and metaspace is thinner. The planet is orbited by two moons. One is ocean, the other is barren though mineral rich. A gas giant and brilliant blue sun round out the system.
Almost all colonists on Saliv were beset by a cyclical doom almost as soon as their boots hit the ground. Powerful 'Null-Breaches' engulf settlements, wiping them off the landscape with impunity. These storms occurred once every ten years, sometimes taking whole cities with them, other times swallowing up just a single house, before dissipating with as much suddenness as they had arisen. A culture of proud suffering grew from this phenomena, and the squabbling guilds, archivist societies, engineers, and laborers came together to try to solve the problem for good. An alliance built to solve an inherited problem rapidly grew to become the sole bloc of political power on Saliv.
Saliv's native exposure to metaspace means a much higher percentage of psychics and mages among the population, and from the time of the First Wave of Exploration, all the way to The Scream- they worked tirelessly to find ways to control the outbreaks of these storms. Powerful Arcane Resonators were created and installed as the focal points of every settlement and though the secrets of their construction are shrouded as one of the state's most guarded secrets, their installation and use kept these 'Null Breaches' from occurring.
Important Sites
Dremlas Arcane Resonator
The Dremlas resonator is a monolith like tower in the center of town that dwarfs the structures around it and stretches above even the hill the academy is built on. The tower is heavily guarded and an umbrella stand has been worked into the structure as well, protecting it from any would be attackers using rockets or other explosive munitions to bring it down. The stands were installed during the earliest days of the post-Scream alliance, when Brother Gamma and his resonator destroying cult prowled the countryside with the intent on leaving no place on the surface of Saliv beyond the reach of metaspace breaches.
The base of the tower is open, and only technicians and senior Alliance personnel may enter. With Dr. Artemis accompanying you the guards merely wave good morning and allow you inside. The ground floor is largely empty aside from the elevator leading up into the control space above. An articulated, massive sized avian skeleton has been hung from the ceiling- the first of the breach creatures the expedition beyond the walls of Dremlas slew in those early days of legend.
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