Aballon

Aballon

(Cosmos)

Titles

The Forge

Type

Terrestrial planet

Adjective

Aballonian

Diameter

1/3

Mass

1/27

Gravity

1/3

Atmosphere

Thin

Year length (PST)

90 days

Day length (PST)

12 hours

Orbits

Sun

System

Pact Worlds system

Satellites

None

Inhabitants

Anacites

Images of Aballon

Source: Core Rulebook, pg(s). 436-437

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Aballon is the planet in the Pact Worlds system that is closest to the Sun, located just inside the orbit of Castrovel. It has no moon.

Geography

Aballon is a drab gray world with craters, deserts, and mountains. When facing the sun, it is blasted by extreme heat and powerful solar winds, while parts facing away from the sun are covered in ice. The space station named simply 01 orbits the planet.

History

A race known only as the First Ones visited Aballon millennia before the Gap and built a massive robotic population to collect the planet's resources. After the First Ones left Aballon, the population evolved and self-replicated over the course of thousands of years into a standalone ecosystem, complete with animal-like robotic predators and prey, and anacites, a sentient race that developed its own complex society.

Inhabitants

A city on Aballon.

Anacites

Aballon is inhabited by a race of machine people called anacites. They live in two groups, each with their own belief: Those Who Wait, a group that prepares for the First Ones' return by collecting wealth and constantly upgrading themselves, and Those Who Become, who see themselves as successors to the First Ones, destined to grow and colonize other worlds in the same manner. Both factions possess significant economic influence, primarily stemming from their extraction of rare ores from the Midnight Trenches and their involvement with anacite-controlled technology companies like Automatrix Robotics. These corporations specialize in crafting non-sentient ship AIs and servitor bots, which they sell to various Pact Worlds. Additionally, both groups frequently contract offworld adventurers to explore the nine ancient cities of the First Ones, enigmatic spire-filled collections that anacites are prohibited from entering due to ancient regulations. These expeditions aim to reveal insights into their progenitors' identities and ultimate objectives.

A third fringe group, known as Those Who Create exists as well, and although it originated on Aballon, most of their activities take place off-world since they are viewed as blasphemous criminals by the two primary anacite sects.