Amedo

The binary Amedo system is mainly known for the large number of Skavara living on the planet of the same name, roaming across a whole continent in large tribes and packs. Nowadays, the native semi-intelligences share the planet with colonists in cities spread around a large archipelago. Amedo's white island temples are known across the entire Horizon, and the islands are also home to many great carved heads and other figures of Portal Builder origin. On the thin atmosphered planet of Mirach, lies the dome city Xhi, home of the Expatriates. The expatriates are a cult that claims direct descent from the mighty families the Zenithians left behind on al-Ardha, but who later joined the colonists who became the Firstcome. Xhi is sponsored by the Zenithian Hegemony and has been approved as a true Zenithian colony by the faction. The expatriates follow the Hegemony with slavish discipline, and many lower-ranking troopers of the Astûrban, the Zenithian secret police, are recruited from Xhi. Closely orbiting the smaller Amedo-B, also known as Ekharan, is a strange planetary body called the Eye of Ekharan. The Eye is a perfect ellipse with a transverse axis of exactly 1,100 km. Since the observations of the Eye began, its orbit has stayed constant. That the Eye is no natural phenomenon is obvious to anyone.