Notable Places
BQ-0758 Kinesis
An austere planet created by High Terrans to remotely generate energy for use on Earth. Kinesis is a perpetual energy generator – an extremely valuable piece of technology whose existence the Union very much noticed. Ruling the High Terran monopoly over Kinesis as unethical, it has since become the primary source of energy for most cognizant species, and a point of universal political tension. One large discontent being that Terrans still legally own Kinesis, and refuse to hand sovereignty over to the collective powers of the Union.
Kinesis belongs to the High Executor of External Affairs, which is to say Zubenelgenubi Verticillaster. Kinesis's mechanisms are mostly self-sufficient, requiring only occasional maintenance by a High Terran, and not anything that requires visiting the planet, so Verticillaster doesn't personally show up much.
Despite Kinesis' self-sufficiency, intergalactic treaty demands that representatives from every race be stationed on the planet. They are legitimately trained engineers, but their only job, if anything, is to read printouts of AI behaviour. Naturally, the role is a formality, and primarily exists to quell anxieties that someone may try to claim more of Kinesis than they're due or expel certain demographics from its services.
It is an incredibly dismal place with no aesthetics or pleasant natural scenery, composed primarily of office vaults, dorms, and some chain stores from intergalactic businesses. The primary atmosphere is one of immense tedium. Extraordinarily few people take their jobs seriously past the first week, though they are paid ridiculously well for their positions. Engineering jobs on Kinesis, by contract, last ten years – workers rightly speculate it's the only thing that keeps everyone from quitting after their first paycheck.
As decreed by a recent intergalactic treaty, the on-the-ground head of Kinesis' Engineering Wing is the High Terran High Executor of Human Relations, Caph Camellia, more often referred to by his title of Luminary due to his unpronounceable lowname. The treaty forbids Camellia from leaving Kinesis until further notice. That further notice is never coming, and Camellia is terminally bored, effectively there a prisoner. Albeit one with the authority to boss employees around.
Naturally, he does, so things have become somewhat more exciting on Kinesis with Camellia's arrival. He permits a lot of stupid antics and inevitably involves others in his own, and with Camellia being a powerful reality warper, his antics are leagues of stupid above anything other overseers could've even tried to attempt. Still, he is limited by his deference to Vertel's rules and authority on Kinesis, and does take the small parts of the position that matter relatively seriously.
But the tedium of Kinesis grates even Camellia down, slowly. By the time Lisbet arrives there, he is withdrawn, quiet, and generally dissociative, rarely focusing on the world enough to perceive its actual state. It would be concerning, and perhaps even sad – if any other employee had even slightly comparable longevity, to have witnessed, and recognized his decline.
Umestos
A Coreti colony planet. Destroyed in 8221 in a surprise offensive by the Tislin military, who sourced an absurd number of heavily-regulated planet-breaking hyperion bombs from Verticillaster's object-generating invention, the Cornucopia. Alongside the Tislin, High Terrans were heavily prosecuted for the incident.
Cautenlla
A Coteri-owned trade planet doubling as the refugee home for the Meej, whose home planet was conquered and people enslaved by their native enemies, the Emdrat. Destroyed in 8441 when Emdrat guerrillas implicated Cautenlla as a hotbed of organized Low Terran abuse, then forwarded recordings of the operation to Verticillaster. The recordings provoked a psychotic episode wherein Verticillaster detonated the planet with his reality warping.
The incident infuriated Camellia, who immediately moved to enact his genocide of non-humans. To counter him, Verticillaster immediately proposed and formalized an intergalactic treaty to imprison Camellia on Kinesis. The Union redoubled its resistance against the Emdrat and Verticillaster escaped serious prosecution with an insanity plea.