Ragnath is the sole orbiting moon of the planet Seraph in the Caperion System. It is a small moon characterized by naturally low gravity, historically terraformed and augmented by ancient and highly advanced gravity generators. Prior to recent galactic conflicts, these generators sustained a stabilized environment that supported vast urban centers, extensive seas, forests, and plains. Following catastrophic infrastructure failure and subsequent strategic reallocation of Clan resources, the moon has undergone an extreme environmental collapse.
HAZARD WARNING: Traversing the Outer Wastes is considered highly lethal. Personnel operating outside the domes will encounter bizarre and unpredictable gravitational phenomena. A localized sector may register as environmentally safe one moment, only to instantly invert into zero-gravity or shift into crushing hyper-gravity the next.
Physical Geography
Land map of Ragnath
Historical Context: The Rise and Fall of Ragnath
Early Colonization and the Gravity Era
Ragnath was first colonized roughly 20,000 years ago, alongside the first human settlements on Seraph. Initially, the moon’s naturally low gravity hindered large-scale development, though ruins of over a dozen ancient civilizations still dot the landscape. Approximately 500 years ago, ancestors of the United Corporations of Elaya (UCE) revolutionized life on the moon by burying massive, geothermally powered gravity generators near its core. By simulating standard gravity, colonization exploded, transforming Ragnath into a lush world of oceans, forests, and bustling cities shared by the system's five major political factions.
The Mortis Assault and Environmental Collapse
During the Great Jedi War XV, Ragnath was devastated by the Children of Mortis. The assault critically compromised the moon's ancient core gravity generators. While Imperial engineering corps managed to temporarily stabilize the systems, the damage was ultimately irreparable. Recognizing the impending planetary collapse, Clan Scholae Palatinae, under the leadership of Kamjin, acquired the world of Seraph and relocated their headquarters and primary resources.
Following the final failure of the primary generators and their backups, Ragnath suffered a total environmental collapse. To preserve what little infrastructure remained, Rayne orchestrated an Imperial intervention, installing massive domes over the important population centers and restoring moderate functionality.
Historical Timeline
- Early Colonization (c. 20,000 Years Ago): First human settlements established alongside Seraph. Natural low gravity severely hampered initial advancement.
- The Gravity Era (c. 500 Years Ago): Corporate ancestors buried massive gravity generators near the moon's geothermic core. This artificial enhancement normalized gravity, sparking an exponential population boom and the rise of major cities.
- Clan Occupation: Clan Scholae Palatinae seized control of key territories (including Caelestis City and the Nethal Archipelago), utilizing Ragnath as their headquarters.
- The Mortis Assault (GJW XV): The Children of Mortis attacked the Brotherhood. Ragnath’s core gravity generators were irreparably damaged.
- Strategic Relocation: Under Kamjin’s reign, the Clan conquered Seraph and relocated its headquarters, deprioritizing Ragnath.
- Total Environmental Collapse: The failing generators died completely. Without gravity, Ragnath's atmosphere vanished into space, and its oceans (formerly 57% of the surface) violently boiled off.
- Imperial Intervention: Rayne installed the domes and preserved what she could.
Current Geography & The Imperial Domes
Ragnath's surface is now a barren wasteland exposed to the vacuum of space. To preserve the remaining population, the Empire constructed four massive, self-contained domes equipped with localized gravity and life support over the moon's major cities.
The Domed Cities (Habitable Zones)
- Caelestis City (Continent: Maqor): Located in a massive crescent bay (now a dry basin), this technological masterpiece was formerly the Clan's capital. It remains the largest surviving metropolis on the moon.
- Ryax (Continent: Sharnelle): The third-largest city, now preserved under Imperial shielding.
- Palcona (Continent: Welok): The second-largest city, located at the former landbridge between Maqor and Welok.
- [Redacted/Fourth Major City]: Safely enclosed within the final Imperial dome.
The Outer Wastes (Lethal Vacuum)
Everything outside the four domes is exposed to the vacuum of space and highly volatile kinetic forces. The loss of artificial gravity caused the atmosphere to dissipate entirely, which in turn caused the moon's oceans to violently boil off into space.
Geographical Updates
The lush continents of Ragnath have been reduced to barren hazardous wastelands, though the bones of their geography remain.
- Sharnelle: Once defined by the beautiful Lake Vivverna and frost-covered plains, this northern continent is now a dry, frozen expanse of craters and exposed rock. Its largest city, Ryax (formerly controlled by the UCE), survives under the protection of one of the four Imperial Domes.
- Quelabon: This equatorial continent was previously quarantined by the UCE due to mysterious disappearances. Its thick jungles and snow-capped peaks are completely dead. It remains highly volatile and lethal to unauthorized explorers.
- Jaylaa: The rolling hills, rich farmlands, and southern forests of Jaylaa are now lifeless dust. Mount Helafac still stands, but young Nayamans can no longer make their traditional physical pilgrimages.
- Nethal Archipelago: Formerly a chain of islands populated by isolated fishing communities and secret Meraxis Empire weapon caches, this region is completely unrecognizable. With the surrounding oceans boiled away, the islands are simply jagged peaks jutting out from a massive, dry basin.
- Maqor: The Hypraex Mountain range still rings the impact crater of the continent, but Kaskon Lake at its center has evaporated. The southern crescent bay remains the home of Caelestis City, a technological masterpiece formerly taken from the Meraxis Empire by Clan Scholae Palatinae, now surviving securely beneath an Imperial Dome.
- Welok: Ragnath’s largest continent is stripped of its dense tundra forests, jungles, and plains. The Gabollo mountain range is bare rock. The Elayan Republic’s crown jewel, Palcona, sits in the dry bay between Welok and Maqor, preserved as one of the four domed cities.
- Dammalus: Once controlled by the Republic of the Force, this eastern landmass was famous for holy sites built on natural points of concentrated Force energy. These temples and shrines now sit entirely abandoned in the vacuum of the Outer Wastes.