Arcturus Magna

Arcturus Magna, also sometimes referred to as simply Arcturus, is an ice-covered planet located in the Xeler System. It was formed in a solar nebula that also created the other satellites of Xeler, and is the fourth planet of the Xeler System.

History
Arcturus Magna came to be in a solar nebula that formed much of the Xeler system, including its neighbouring planets of Estron and Azzilat, and was one of the first planets to be inhabited in the Xeler system.

Its icy nature made it a nearly uninhabitable location for any travellers, and it was therefore ignored after the Second Great Infinus War was over and the migrations into the universe were taking place.

When the Kingdom of Dracia was founded, future President of Arcturus Magna Filius and future Chief Enforcer Acritus made a decision to migrate from Dracia in search of more remote planets to establish a new base for the Combat Masters’ League, to train new Combat Apprentices to help protect the universe.

Starting out in a small collection of villages, the Arcturan economy was mostly reliant on imports from Dracia, having little natural resources that would make bread possible. Once Filius realised that this system of constant import from Dracia was inefficient, he and some teams started thinking of ways to build artificial greenhouses, besides the fish and other creatures that they were limited to. The first artificial greenhouses became major galactic sources of food, with even Dracia importing some of the early models for space station use.

Once the Planetary Alliance was founded, the Arcturan leadership was reluctant to join, seeing themselves instead as a galactic elite planet of experiments and justice rather than a “centre of civilisation” like Dracia was. But, after much deliberation, Hendrax managed to convince Filius and Acritus to agree to join the Planetary Alliance, and they became a provider of many scientific advantages, as well as providing some of the most able galactic protectors.

Early settlements on Arcturus Magna were crammed houses of reinforced steel Protodermis, the same material used to build the battleships with which the beings originally arrived, and they were led from a battleship that was used by Filius and Acritus to settle on the planet. There, the two Combat Masters meditated and quietly trained their Apprentices to become full-fledged Combat Masters themselves, apprenticing, as one of the most prominent, the Toa of Air Rex.

Though prosperity for the Planetary Alliance seemed guaranteed, with Arcturus Magna and Dracia providing for scientific, economic and cultural benefits, the successes soon came to an abrupt halt when Dracia collapsed after Zirix betrayed his Master, Hendrax. Dracia disappeared into a black hole, into the Realm of Darkness, and the ensuing mass panic across many regions of the galaxy resulted in the Estronian Civil War and the secessions of Kubran, Moni and Azzilat. With Arcturus Magna the sole remaining stable planet, an unusually high number of Dracian refugees sought to enter what they viewed as the scientific paradise.

But, although the refugees expected to find a scientific paradise, the small Arcturan community started to get serious administrative problems as more and more refugees flocked into the rapidly expanding city. Growing almost nonstop, Arcturus City finally became the largest single settlement in the galaxy, built around the original valley in which the political centre was situated: the Arcturus Valley.

Shortly after its foundation, Arcturus City grew to become one of the largest settlements in its region, growing at an almost uncontrolled rate. In order to combat the galactic pirates' threat to commerce and economy, the Arcturus Magna Council (the city's main government) agreed, with several other planets (including Azzilat, Kubran, Estron and Moni), to form the Galactic Council, establishing common trade and travel routes between the planets and their respective systems. Though its support was minimal amongst the galactic pirates because of the monopoly it would give businesses, the Galactic Council was agreed upon in Arcturus City, leading to an expansion of the economy of Arcturus Magna and its local system in general.

Shortly afterwards, the Universal Paralysis occurred after the Nui Tower of Time collapsed. After this happened, Arcturus Magna and the Galactic Council initially tried to resist the influence of darkness, not welcoming the fact that time had stopped completely. Soon afterwards, however, the governments of the Galactic Council were forced to comply by Krataxus and his allies, who kept the government of Arcturus Magna intact, but imprisoned Acritus after he had gotten into a fight with Krataxus. Instead, Krataxus himself was appointed the new Chief Enforcer, though he did not do much to enforce law on the planet, instead hunting Fairon. He did make sure that Undead soldiers became the new Enforcers.

Geography
The surface of Arcturus Magna is largely marked by the presence of endless swathes of ice and snow, with little in the way of bodies of water except those below the surface. It is subject to varying degrees of latitude and altitude, and a large portion of the planetary surface is marked by the presence of so-called "ice-seas", which are seas covered by thick layers of ice, containing little to no settlements due to their barren, inhospitable nature. Below the icy surface, the planet's temperature is significantly higher and sports a magnificent number of underground lakes and hospitable landscapes. Due to their depth, though, these caves barely receive starlight from Xeler.

Arcturus Valley
Arcturus Valley is an enormous low-lying canyon situated in-between several large mountains, largely covered by Arcturus City. It is surrounded by a mountain range, entrances to the Arcturan Caves at surface level, and several ice seas. This makes the Valley one of the few relatively habitable locations on the planet.

Arcturan Caves
The Arcturan Caves is a system of ice caves situated right below and around Arcturus City leading deep into the planet's underground. It is a vast network of caves of which the surface level has largely been taken up by Arcturan building projects that have expanded into subsurface levels. Below that, though, the caves are largely unexplored.

Arcturus City
The largest city in the Xeler system and possibly the galaxy itself, Arcturus City makes up not just the entire canyon of Arcturus Valley, but also the slopes of the surrounding mountains, as well as large subsurface territories. It is a vast, sprawling metropolis built around the governmental centre located at the foot of the Spire, a tremendous governmental tower leading high into the sky.

Arcturus City also situates the galaxy's largest spaceport, where ships from all over the galaxy come and go.

Ice Seas
The ice seas are large, frozen seas that are largely inhospitable due to a lack of natural resources and the fact that they are entirely flat. It is believed that roughly 65% of the Arcturan surface is made of ice seas, with the remaining 35% being actual land.

Residents

 * Filius
 * Acritus
 * Population of Arcturus City

Trivia

 * The Arcturan governmental structure and its operation is based on a mixture between the real-life US government and European Union.

Appearances

 * Dark Future (mentioned only)