Asteria Prime is the homeplanet for the Asterians and home of the Asterian race
About
Asterian space is vast, bordering the Fifth Sphere of the GCPS at its galactic-southern edge and stretching away from it almost as far as the northern rim. Asteria Prime is its administrative centre and serves as the homeworld of many Asterians today. These dimensions are not known to anyone within the corporations but the suspected size of Asterian space is so great it has given rise to the popular belief within the GCPS that Asterians must be both ruthlessly genocidal and highly procreative. Neither supposition is accurate.
Asteria Prime itself is more or less evenly divided amongst traditional, technologically-minded Asterians and the Kalyshi.
History
How the Scourge itself came to be is one of Asteria Prime’s most closely guarded secrets - even many Asterians are unaware of the devil’s bargain once made by their leaders that led to the death of so many worlds. Exo-analysts within the GCPS have theorised the link between Asteria and the Prax - one of the few races in the galaxy more ancient and enigmatic than the Asterians - bears investigation, while man’s allies amongst the Forge Fathers have pointed out the similarities between images of Plague-spawning artefacts and certain Asterian technologies. However and whenever it originated, the Scourge tore through Asteria’s military and corrupted every world it touched. Asteria Prime, the seat of the empire itself, was under threat and the Scourge was only stopped when all links with the infected areas were severed. The quantum tunnels that enabled interplanetary travel to these planets were destroyed and their remaining populations were sealed off from the rest of the empire with a blockade of warships. The Scourge was stopped but the cost was high. So great was the impact of the loss of so many lives on so many worlds, it brought about the end of the Empire. A new system of governance was inaugurated – the Tesseract.
Gallery
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Asteria Prime Map
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Asteria Prime Planet
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