Albion

Albion is a terrestrial planet located in the Aleph Cluster. Albion and its orbit are home to several billion people, making the majority of the Cluster's population. The predominant species is human, but other humanoid alien species are known to intermingle and move freely through the planet.

Albion is also home to the orbital object 'Null', a multi-levelled, railgun-like space elevator used for facilitating trade and travel within the Aleph Cluster and beyond. Albion's economy is highly reliant on trade, as its natural resources are on a razor's edge.

Albion's land mass comprises of three major 'continents' divided into three sectors each by a 'Capital' sector rising from the ocean. Each sector is home to one of the nine great city states of Albion, ruled by a democratically elected governor responsible for the wellbeing of the entire sector, with a team of elected public servants. The governors congregate at the Capital Sector once every three months to share their plans with each other, talk about trade, diplomacy, and their collective future.

The climate and conditions run the gamut from balmy around the equator to frozen at the ice caps, with a pair of temperate bands between each. The cities of Albion are designed differently to adapt to their surroundings, but they all stretch high into the air, with strata connecting many sets of buildings together into living spaces, leaving enough room for aerospace traffic.

The Capital Sector of Albion is situated in an ocean between Wace and Appolyn. Built on a small land mass to serve as an intermediate point for vessels, the Monarch Gavin the Younger deemed Regum their domain - as they could see every continent of Albion from the skies here. As time went on, the island was artificially expanded as the needs of Albion grew. Regum is the land's capital city-state, where the Rulership of Albion resides. The weather is artificially controlled here; Defying windy, wet, tropical patterns.

The ruler of Regum is the de-facto King or Queen of Albion, with the ability to appoint and sack a governors with the approval of a majority of the others. This makes competition for the ruler of Regum and the rest of Albion a highly contentious and risky endeavour, with many figures vying for the position with their families, businesses, and other assets on the line to win at any cost.

Wace is the northeastern continent of Albion. Up in the northern sector of White, Wace is broken into a chilly archipelago, with frost at the northernmost points of Wace and stretching to the north pole. The frigid city-state of Poyning is located in a hollowed mountain overlooking on the northern shores. In the centre of the continent is temperate savannah sector Red, broken up by dry forests and rocky hills. The river Halstead flows from White's mountains into Red and splits just south of the city-state of Myrddin into the Purple sector. One of the largest offshoot rivers of the Halstead is the Granger, which stretches southeast into the continent, closest to the equator and home to muggy rainforests and treacherous waves. The trading city of Vulgate is located at the edges of the rainforest, following the Granger down to the shores.

The cities of Wace incorporate constructions from older times seamlessly into their cities, preserving and building around archaic façades. Their general politics embrace the feudal roots of Albion's inception, with a strong reverence to the Rulership's monarchical roots.