Vulcan-Minor
Once a terrestrial base for the gas miners of Vulcan-Majoris, Vulcan-Minor was gifted to a union of ignoble laborers given rank and title during the United Republic of Earth Colonies; development of the world continued through the end of the Republican Era as its population grew and grew. As the Republic fell apart , breakaway movements on Vulcan fought bitterly against the newly formed Imperial units stationed there, eventually escalating to an interstellar conflict in which the independence fighters made good with their threat to fling an asteroid at New Babylon – they did so, causing massive destruction that plunged the world into a yearslong cycle of shock winters and king tides. For this, Vulcan suffered terribly under the Empire's Rise.
By the Emperor’s command, Vulcan became little more than a prison world – the Empire’s dumping ground for dissidents, remnant Republican Guard, and others deemed criminal by the new Empire. Even so, the newly minted nobility of Empire’s reign and the few lines native to Vulcan carried on the business of making a home from lunar rock. In the thousands of years after the Creation of the Colonial Earth Empire, Vulcan-Minor evolved from hardscrabble moon to massively reworked terraforming project, with planned hydrologic systems, atmosphere domes, and raw-earth habitable canyons. Construction of the House of Axe’s Inverted Tower – a deep-plunging hollow “core tower” – began and was finished during this time. Now, in addition to being one of Vulcan-Minor’s most populous cities (nearing thirty million souls), the Inverted Tower is also home to some of the galaxy’s most cutting-edge research into homunculi, thanatologic reconstruction, and other, more uncanny sciences.
Geography
Vulcan-Minor is primarily a volcanic hotbed that would be considered inhabitable if not for the considerable terraforming efforts made by the House of Axes. Most of the population lies at the fork of an underground lava river, where the Axes discovered a cache of long lost paracausal technolgy that was likely sent towards the planet during the Flight of the Lost.
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