Planet Name: Scora
Faction: The Virtual Union of Cyte
Scora is a colossal, sentient machine, printed into existence from the salvaged data of an ancient world, long destroyed yet reassembled in an act of technological rebirth. Its surface, landscapes, and even atmosphere have all been pieced together from fragmented information, and as such, it is a place of strange incongruities—a world where logic battles with the echoes of ancient, chaotic memories.
The planet pulses with life, a blend of the synthetic and organic where cities rise in sleek metal peaks, blending seamlessly with impossible geographies. Here, the familiar mingles with the surreal: hills ripple like fabric underfoot, rivers run thick with maple syrup, the planet has not been built correctly. It is a planet of potential and chaos, an unrelenting enigma where the creator glitched so many times whilst creating this world.
Key Locations:
The University of Open Wings: A beacon of intellect and exploration, this renowned research centre draws the brightest minds from across Cyte and beyond. The University of Open Wings is dedicated to the relentless pursuit of knowledge in robotics, quantum physics, and frontier sciences, often pushing into areas considered impossible elsewhere. Towering, translucent spires rise above the campus, their shifting hues mirroring the ever-changing sky of Scora.
The Q Yard: In this city, financial algorithms and market analytics are an art form. Here, Hardlighters—the planet’s native race—work to predict the unpredictable, navigating the market with a mixture of intuition and cold logic. Q Yard buzzes day and night with a feverish energy, as if the city itself partakes in the endless game of calculated risk and reward, feeding on its residents' ambitions.
The Calcification Yard: As vast as a small country, this industrial heart of Scora is a never-sleeping, endlessly efficient machine dedicated to the creation of Mech Knights, warriors forged from the planet’s core data and built for Cyte's defensive power. In the Calcification Yard, massive foundries work day and night to 3D-print and assemble mech warriors layer by layer, each knight a testament to Scora’s prowess in synthetic production.
Key Disadvantages:
Misprinted Data Glitches: Scora is a planet riddled with errors, a place where both land and inhabitants suffer from the unstable, corrupted data used to create it. The terrain itself is marred by severe misprints: landscapes that should be solid stone are made from wool, swamps sodden with maple syrup, seas of acid, travelling the planet is potentially lethal. This chaotic instability extends to the inhabitants, who were printed from fragments of trillions of minds, making them a patchwork of disjointed memories and identities. Hardlighters are haunted by these residual echoes—flashes of unknown knowledge or personalities that rise and fade unpredictably, often leaving them confused, hesitant, or erratic in behaviour. Like the land around them, they are unable to rely on stability, living as vessels of fractured memories that disrupt their perception of self.
Homeworld Race: Hardlighters
The Hardlighters are a race of aberrants, inhabitants 3D-printed by Scora’s core as a result of the data used to form the planet. Standing as living reflections of their own world’s instability, Hardlighters are peculiar and intricate beings, composed of digital veins and synthetic tissues that pulse with the planet’s own lifeforce. They are not entirely organic, nor entirely robotic; rather, they are hybrids who bridge the gap between machine and flesh, able to “print” items by manipulating the planet’s core data that flows through them like blood.
Due to their bond with Scora’s sentient core, Hardlighters can channel the data-rich environment, summoning physical items or tools by accessing the planet’s vast memory banks. However, they bear the marks of their chaotic creation: each Hardlighter is unique, with features that may shift or “glitch” occasionally, mirroring the fragmented data Scora is built from.
POIs:
Malachi Vega (He/Him) - Christopher
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