The Compendium

A blue-skied colony world has spent thirty years turning alien inheritance and Martian discipline into a civilization built for expansion.

The ring gate to Laconia admitted Duarte's breakaway fleet and links his isolated civilization to humanity's thousand-world network.

Duarte's disciplined military state organizes an isolated world around alien research, expansion, and uncompromising accountability.

A vast alien structure above Laconia offers the isolated colony a shipyard and technological inheritance beyond human engineering.

An amoral exobiologist devotes his life to unlocking alien technology and reshaping Duarte into an immortal ruler.

An ancient self-replicating tool hijacks life, opens gates, interfaces with alien machines, and now promises engineered immortality.

Duarte's immense but austere seat of government embodies a regime that presents absolute power as serious, practical work.

Laconia's armored biosecurity prison turns infected people and animals into a renewable supply of active protomolecule.

Laconia's immense research campus turns protomolecule science and alien artifacts into the practical foundations of Duarte's future empire.

Laconia's absolute ruler tests alien-engineered immortality on himself to build a stable empire no mortal heir can squander.