Before the cataclysm known as the Sundering, the planet Memosyne was graced by the Celestial Gardens. This magnificent luxury ring station was a marvel of engineering, designed to offer unparalleled comfort and lush flora to visiting dignitaries. It orbited Memosyne as a symbol of tranquility and advanced civilization.
This serene existence was violently shattered by an event simply referred to as "The Glitch." As the Glitch froze Memosyne below, the intricate orbital infrastructure of the Celestial Gardens splintered and tore apart. Its once-grand structures were reduced to a chaotic, lethal debris field, forever after known as the Razor Halo.
From this destruction emerged the Verdant Splinter, the largest surviving pressurized fragment of the former ring. This crucial piece of debris became a microgravity farm, absolutely vital to the survival of the Red Sun Dominion forces on Memosyne's frozen surface. The Dominion retrofitted its splintered hull, sealing breaches with primitive patches to maintain the essential humidity for growing algae and tubers.
Adrift in the treacherous Razor Halo, the Verdant Splinter maintains a fragile, yet thriving, ecosystem. The station is constantly plagued by the region's notorious static electrical discharge. The friction of millions of debris shards grinding together creates massive ionization build-ups that arc unpredictably across the station's hull, frying systems and inexplicably jump-starting dormant machinery.
Navigating to the Splinter is a suicide run for inexperienced pilots, further complicated by highly unpredictable velocity vectors within the debris field. Memosyne's pervasive gravitational anomalies also tug relentlessly at the halo, causing the farm to drift erratically. It accelerates and decelerates without warning, making approach and departure incredibly hazardous.
Despite these immense dangers and its critically unstable structural integrity, the Dominion utterly relies on the Splinter's consistent output. Synthetic rations alone cannot sustain troops indefinitely in the sub-zero temperatures below, making the farm's biological bounty indispensable. Thus, the Verdant Splinter persists, critically unstable yet biologically thriving.
