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 |primary races=[[Shen]],[[W'hoorn]],[[Nath-el]],[[Tukkav]]
-|base=[[Glisal II]]
+|base=[[Litharge, on Glisal II]]
 |allies=Unknown
 |enemies=[[Song Dominion]],[[Ishvana]]}}
 ==Summary==
-Fifty billion people live on the densely urban planet of [[Glisal II]], the capital of the Celestine Ascendancy. Massive cities sprawl across most of the planet's continents, and pollution clouds the atmosphere. Towering skyscrapers, the homes of the social and political elite, soar high above smog-choked urban valleys. Crime and both power and economic inequality run rampant, with the top 0.1% of the population having more of both than the rest of the planet combined.
+Fifty billion people live on the densely urban planet of [[Glisal II]], the capital of the '''Celestine Ascendancy'''. Massive cities sprawl across most of the planet's continents, and pollution clouds the atmosphere. Towering skyscrapers, the homes of the social and political elite, soar high above smog-choked urban valleys. Crime and both power and economic inequality run rampant, with the top 0.1% of the population having more of both than the rest of the planet combined.
 The planet itself is of Earth-standard gravity and boasts a ring system around it, which visibly takes up half the sky, even during the day. Two platinum-rich moons also orbit the planet, which are a major source of wealth for the Ascendancy.
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 ==Background==
-The '''[[Celestine Ascendancy]]''' was formed in 29 A.E. by an alliance of the [[Decheerans]], the [[Nusriza]], the [[Amaians]], and the [[Ry'nari]] to oppose the forces of the [[Ishvana]] during the [[Bushraki War]] - the first invasion by the Ishvana in 40,000 years, since the [[War of Extinction]] that saw the end of the reign of the [[Elder Races]].
-They chose the planet [[Song]] - long a shining jewel of multi-species cooperation - as the capital of their budding [[Song Dominion|Dominion]]. Rich with life and abundant with natural resources, it had been settled and built up more than a thousand years prior.
+The Celestine Ascendancy was formed in 35 A.E. as a reaction to the combined power of the [[Song Dominion]] in the aftermath of the [[Bushraki War]]. [[Glisal II]] was chosen as the capital because the [[Shen]], the [[Nath-el]], the [[Tukkav]], and the [[W'hoorn]] - the founding races of the Celestines - all had large populations already living there in peace together. They sought to form an alliance that could resist potential aggression by the Song, for there have been various degrees of long-standing tension or outright hostility between some of the races of the Dominion and the Ascendancy. For instance, the W'hoorn/Ry'nari rivalry has been legendarily vicious throughout the millennia.
-They immediately hired the [[Free Fleet]], led by an aging but still-brilliant [[Mezer Juul]], with [[Maddox Khan]] and [[Akari Lane]] as his seconds. Alongside that formidable force, they built a combined fleet jointly supplied by the formerly individual militaries of the involved races.
+The struggles between the Song and the Celestines over the last 900 years have resulted in multiple skirmishes and wars, including the terrible [[Empire Wars]].
-Together, they pushed back the [[Bushraki]] and [[Vendal]] forces of the [[Ishvana]], until a desperate all-out assault destroyed [[Mezer Juul]]'s command ship, throwing the Song forces into command paralysis until Maddox and Akari took control and saved the day.
-==Destruction of the Planet Song==
-The capital world was absolutely devastated in an attack by the [[Bushraki]], leaving it a toxic, radioactive wasteland. Its shining towers and verdant fields were reduced to irradiated slag, and the planet's population, which had numbered in the billion, was now less than 10 million strong, and living aboard refugee fleets.
-Possibly even more tragically, as all now know, [[Tamiko Lane Khan]] took this opportunity to use a cast-off [[Celestine Ascendancy]] cruiser, broadcasting Ascendancy transponder codes, to blow up a portion of the refugee fleet fleeing the planet, triggering the beginning of the vicious hostilities between the [[Song Dominion]] and the Ascendancy that have expressed themselves in the Empire Wars.
+[[File:Celestine-Ascendancy-reduced.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Litharge, the capital of Glisal II an the Ascendancy.]]
-The races of the [[Song Dominion]] examined many planets to relocate their capital to, but ultimately rejected any replacement. Instead, they would rebuild on Song itself. The critics of this seemingly pointless decision were loud and self-righteous in their attacks. It would cost too much. Too many lives would inevitably be lost to accidents leading to environmental exposure.
+[[Category:Celestine Ascendancy]]
-In the end, the complaints were swept aside, and the decision to rebuild on Song was framed as a moral imperative. The Ishvana would not be permitted to drive them off their chosen capital. It would not get the privilege of such power over them without utterly destroying them first.
-And so began one of the most unique engineering projects and one of the most defiant displays of pure stubbornness Starmourn has ever seen - the construction of [[Song City]].
-[[File:Song_City.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Song City.]]
-[[Category:Song Dominion]]
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