Portal:Gaia/Introduction

Gaia is a planet in the Ilios system home to all human life. Gaia is called the Allamokhullahaz, the graveyard of empires, She of the Seven Spires, Mother of Kings, Daughter of the White Sun, Seat of Dytika, and Song of Morning. Once, it was thought that the world was going to be consumed, steadily, by the growth of great empires – such as Cornicae, Hallania, and the Hierophany – were destined to divide the world between as humanity moved toward the ecumen, a view promoted rigorously by those states. The clashes of the Continental War and later, the economic decline of even the winning states of that conflict, permanently shattered the imperial view of society. Rising in the west and east, new collectivist powers such as Arlyon, the Hallanic Commonwealth, and the Erdaran Union, have begun to smoother the squalid embers of the imperial dream on the continent.