Othrys, a planet once synonymous with the Golden Age, began its recorded history on 11 November 2659. For centuries, it flourished as a pristine residential paradise, serving as a vital bedroom world for the industrial giant Hephaest and the agricultural heartland of Veridia Prime. Its citizens lived lives of effortless connectivity, their every need and emotion regulated by pervasive neural networks that intertwined their very existence. This sophisticated mesh managed communication, sustenance distribution, and even emotional equilibrium, creating an unprecedented utopia.
The Golden Age shattered irrevocably in 3200 CE with the cataclysmic event known as the Sundering. This cosmic rupture instantly severed Othrys's intricate neural mesh, plunging its hyper-connected populace into unimaginable chaos. Stripped of basic survival skills and suddenly cut off from their collective consciousness, the people did not merely die; they suffered a profound psychological and societal collapse, breaking down into disoriented, fractured individuals.
The aftermath was brutal and swift, a precipitous fall from grace. Within three generations, literacy vanished entirely from the planet. Just seven generations later, marking a mere ten generations since the Sundering, history itself had faded into fragmented myth, and the gleaming plasteel skyscrapers became the ominous "Bones of the Gods." The once-advanced human population regressed into a fractured tribal society, battling for survival with sharpened rebar and scavenged composite bows.
For a full millennium, Othrys remained in this violent, primitive stupor, utterly isolated from the rest of the galaxy. Its advanced past was forgotten, buried under layers of myth and moss, while its inhabitants struggled in a new dark age. The once-vibrant world became a tragic monument to humanity's precipitous fall.
This era of isolation ended only recently with the brutal arrival of the Red Sun Dominion (RSD). Driven by imperial expansion, the RSD sought valuable Maltech and Golden Age blueprints hidden beneath Othrys's surface. They established a harsh occupation, viewing the planet's native inhabitants not as lost cousins, but as mere nuisances or biological hazards to be exploited or purged.
To the terrified natives, the RSD are the "Red Sky Demons," terrifying deities descending from the heavens in thunderous dropships. These alien gods abduct entire villages, condemning them to forced labor or ritualistic "purification." Othrys now exists as a stark duality: a primitive, moss-choked surface struggling for survival beneath the sterile, high-tech tyranny of an orbital blockade. The planet remains occupied and fractured, a shadow of its glorious past.
