Obscura Drikaal (Ob-skore-ah Dr-ack-caal)

Obscura Drikaal is the only thing people know of when they look up upon the Gaian sky, and see the shattered moon. The moon is Drinalis, however the actual pocket of which the debris resides is known as the Obscura Drikaal Region. This place is beyond mystery and barely explored.

"I can not beleive there is a pocket of space within that mass of debris that still contains an atmosphere? Its breathable? How?" ~Scholar Rikki Shooi

It is reported that despite being shattered, Drinalis' habitable atmosphere is still there, being held together by gravitational rifts that are present or so they say.

Geography

Obscura Drikaal is a wonder and many question how can it still exist in its state. The region itself is multiple floating landmasses adrift in a dust cloud that was once part of the Habitable moon Drinalis. There are massive landmasses afloat here that are larger than some regions on Gaia.
Gravity remains the same. The fauna still lives, but slowly dying, as weather is not a thing anymore in the smaller landmasses. However the larger chunks and peices of the moon still have strange weather patterns as it remains tidally locked to Gaia. Amongst these landmases have ruins of precursor civilizations, and laboritories that were responsible for the state of the moon.
Water remains a thing in some of these places. What water remains or 'falls off' edges usually freezes into a water dust, to be sent adrift to Gaia or other parts of the Obscura Drikaal regions.
In the center of the massive debris field, remains a intact and untouched Combine Shipyard and Adminstration centers. If the Guild of Lore can ever sent an expedition up there, the findings would shake the very foundations of Gaia it self.

Ecosystem

The Ecosystem is unlike anything else. Mostly dry, but parts of the region can experience solar flares, Solar Wind Storms, to hurricanes and rainstorms. Dust storms are also common as pieces of debris fall back to the landmasses that float adrift around the exposed center of a shattered Moon.
The most bizzare of all is the region or dust cloud is -breathable-. This is the most perplexing thing known about this dangerous area. The atmosphere remains intact, if not expanded due to unknown or gravitational pulls of what remains.

Fauna & Flora

The moon and the dust cloud are very alien compared to Gaia. Most of the plants have a purple hue to them as they are adapting ot the change of drifting through space within a contained atmosphere. Most of the land was very mountanous, and very wet. Many lakes, rivers and oceans once covered Drinalis.

"This place is very Alien....and to think it once had it's own native life, What could we learn of the Combine? Do thier races even still exist up there in the smaller locations? We may never know." ~Adventurer Jake Lynn Smith of Unity

History

Obscura Drikaal is the region in orbit that houses the shattered particles, landmasses and debris field of Drinalis when it shattered. The Region was created by the Combine by accident when they inadvertantloy triggered the explosion of Drinalis, by testing a Weapon that would shake fear into the galaxy. This very act, is the reported reason why the Combine Empire fell, and remains a scar for all generations to see.
It was once a habitable moon, that had its own fauna and life. Its own ecosystem and enviroments. Most of them can be seen on the planetary-sized shards of the moon. There is also many many ruin on and in the cloud. These can be cities, places, and spacecraft of teh Combine Empire. The entire area is untouched by the guild of Lore, as the only way up safely, is through the use of the Nexus Teleportation system that is frightenly little known.

Alternative Name(s)

The Shattered Zone

Type

Cracked Planet

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A view of what the Shattered Moon would look like in Gaia's Sky.