## The Ember (Or Kinnis)
## Overview
The Ember is found in the prospect and is the most well known sprawl ecumenopolis to have survived to the present day... barely. It is far more developed than the sprawl world Mizar G, with the world being all city. It was evidently a distant city world and not fully connected to the seeds, being a rogue dispatch almost. It stands as the core of Karbana Kinnis regardless, with prospect spacer occupants in some parts even as the [[Opallian Domain|Opallian Domain]] dominates it and has been an ongoing threat to the region as a whole. Opallian activities even were found in the Lost Cluster and are speculated to be why the Etherials collapsed their wormholes, a stupid choice but one the Opallians loved.
The Treasure world is called as such because it's an ecumenopolis built upon a gold rich Terran planet. It is ancient, dating back a daunting 20 thousand years with construction stopping around 12 thousand years. Many sprawl colonies in the Karbana Kinnis Cluster come from this rather developed seed world. It seems this world had a collapse as expected but it wasn't to the totality of many other sprawl worlds where they were reduced to slag and molten rock, gravitationally unraveled or dragged into the nearby sun. This world was lucky. Indeed they followed a general sentiment of luck, the survivors. Even with the conflicting factions from the White Hive, the First to fifth Federation and last city or even [[the Jarto|The Jarto]] they seemed to have been an outlier of survivors.
Nor the stragglers of [[Uvastis]] who were defeated by the scavenger civ that had arisen since. They are a conceited bunch, more interested in conquering sprawl worlds in the cluster and potentially retaking Uvastis than in doing much about the scavengers who raid them. It's hard to do all that much, as they work with anachronistic technology constantly and the ancient divisions within Kinnis have yet to ever resolve. Most [[sprawl denizens|Sprawl Denizens]] just have no interest in such projects and many will go out of their way to subterfuge them even, not wanting to replicate the past. They just want deterrence from the scavengers and to be left alone to their realms. Whatever federation with their warlord puppets controls a part of Kinnis can be hard to care about as one explores the vast empty cityscapes with automata moving about reminding many of what once existed.
The population collapse and recovery was all due to the automata and this lead to widespread superstitions on the sprawl that have persisted for millennia since. This world constrains populations in the trillions, yet still feels mostly empty to prospect spacers who managed to explore it (not hard, considering that the inhabitants rarely use spaceships and have various warp gates to other parts of the cluster instead). They're connected to the [[Verdant_Reach|Verdant Reach]] as well, their space elevators go high and humans who managed a sprawl back door still are exploring the labyrinthine of the Treasure world in its many artifacts and lost societies lurking in the endless automata supported urban sprawl.
Karbana Kinnis as a world in all its glory has many sub-regions of note. One is the mantle accessing expanse from the time the world was in full swing production, as while starlifting was a capability the sprawl had it often was seen as pointless for an ecumenopolis project. Indeed the depths of the expanse reveal a vast cross section of underpolis regions in the vertical incline one sees drop over a hundred kilometers. Some small bridges cross the expanse but most do not, attempts to breach the deeper sprawl often have to run through the Karbana Ti expanse where one has to evade massive automata and deal with all matter of gravitational anomalies of unknown nature. Whatever exists in the depths does not truly want to be known.
### Notable Locales
![[The Recursive Volumes]]
![[The Partitioned Volumes]]
![[The Plains of Memory]]
Kinnis - Ecumene
Karbana - Persistent
Ti -Central
Qi - Inner
Sikun - Middle
Karbana Kinnis is a world of many, many layers but there is a differentiation that one encounters as they descend further into the depths of Kabana Kinnis.
| Layer | Description | |
| ----------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --- |
| **The Outer Void** | In the outer void, secret automated defense grids litter the local system. Tread carefully in sprawl space be it hyperspace or a volumetric space system. You never know what may be hiding in a recess of space-time. | |
| **Mesospheric Orbital Shell** | An orbital shell of numerous decaying orbital structures in deteriorating orbits and roving sentinel automata, it is best to approach slowly to not incur the ire of the sentinels. | |
| **Sterile surface** | 10-20 km of extremely tall structures believed to once have been for commercial and residential usage, much of which is a skeletal fossil of rebuilt sprawl matter after having to build back from ancient bombardments | |
| **The high sprawl** | This layer is known for its vast imposing deep access wells to lower sprawl layers and being an open, spacious realm of atlas pillars and landscapes of maze-like terrain where surveyors hide to keep the sprawl continuing. It is filled with extremely deadly substances that are residues of wmd systems meant to purge the planet's population | |
| **The protective layer** | A deep protective layer that is main almost in vain due to the wells, but still exists to absorb the shock of even a relativistic shell or worse a GRASER. The insulators nature also heavily interferes with most forms of connection, despite the sprawl inhabitants having once used a vast a wormhole grid for communication that was apparently easy to shut off when an invading force was detected... | |
| **The great brace** | The upper sprawl layers were built on "the great brace", the massive atlas pillar complex full of disintegration fog and war machinery. It appearantly was how deep the invaders had gotten before mostly retreating. The defenses here are much tighter than even upper layers | |
### Past the great brace
![[Karbana Kinnis Depths]]
- Connected Systems
- [[The Juncture]]
- [[Outer_Nexus]]
- Connected Region
- [[Prospect Space]]
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