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Thousands of years ago, Man traveled out from Earth. And found tons of weird, wild shit. A vast galactic republic was formed with various alien races, with all sorts of wars and conflicts both external and internecine,with a vast and virtually impenetrable bureaucracy built out of an electoral demarchy that even now, nobody really can claim they fully understood. And none of that really matters anymore, because the Supergalactic State forged has been dead for almost as long as it was alive- it’s been at least a couple thousand years since the Old State collapsed. Why it collapsed likewise doesn’t really matter- only cheap demagogues looking to rile up support and political historians really care about that.

What matters is that you are alive here, and now, in the Charybdis system. This is home. Your home. Probably, the only home you’ll ever know. Charybdis is settled near the end of one of the Milky Way’s arms, its only neighbors for about a half dozen light years are another solar system, Scylla, and the small black hole they both lazily orbit- the Messinic Rift. Nobody remembers if either system held much importance in the greater space of galactic society, but the sheer amount of debris from long-forgotten battles and dumped scrap makes some think there must have been something.

Since the Collapse, there has not been any contact with Scylla or indeed anyone or anything past the edge of this desolate part of space, though comm arrays pick up plenty of ghost signals and telepaths sometimes feel phantom broadcasts once sent out in ages past. Most people are happy that Charybdis itself at least has some degree of inter-system communication and trade.

Charybdis is made up of three habitable planets, two gas giants, two asteroid belts, a few barren balls of rock, and a debris field made of ruined ships. The habitable planets are Orochi, Typhon, and Fafnir. The gas giants are Hydra and Naga. The lifeless worlds are Lotan, Ikuchi, and Falak. Naga is closest to the star, and is predicted to fall into it in another five or six million years, give or take a singularity event. Past that is Falak, then the Apophis Belt, made up of the remains of the planet Apophis, which was destroyed during the Collapse by some disastrous event that was not well recorded. After that is Typhon, the desert planet, then the Calamity Ring of ruined ships, followed by the watery world of Orochi, then the Knucker Asteroid Belt, then the coldest habitable world of Fafnir, and the outer planetary bodies of Hydra, Ikuchi, and finally Lotan. Like Earth’s sun, Charybdis is one of those rare G-V main sequence stars.

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