Ailythe, Heart of the Mountain [Angelic]
Cost 66 Essence
[Sign in] This huge boulder would seem unremarkable at first. It’s a typical piece of exploded planet, rough and jagged in the absence of erosion. It is basalt. One unexplained property renders it an utter mystery. No matter what is done to it, one side is always ice cold and the other burning hot. Nothing can change it.
Benefits:
+20% morale
+5% troop recruitment
Penalties:
-10% population growth
Duration:
14 days

Arm of Crux [Rare]
Cost 16 Essence
[Sign in] The blasted moon is easily distinguished from the pieces of an exploded planet, by it’s spherical form and surface regularly pocked with meteor impacts. Once it must have orbited a planet, providing everything from tidal changes to inspiration for an idle artist. Now one side has been scarred to blackened, twisted ruin by the planet’s combustion and it spins endlessly in the void, with no purpose. But strange grooves scar into the surface, from which pictographic language can be seen.
Benefits:
+10% morale
Penalties:
None Duration:
7 days

Avalon Fiefdoms [Rare]
Cost 21 Essence
[Sign in] At first glance, it seems to be a gigantic piece of debris coated in a thick layer of radioactive ash. Closer inspection reveals that there’s more to it. The tips of building can be seen poking out of its volcanic burial shroud. Inside are whole city blocks of some forgotten megalopolis, entombed by an ancient storm of ash. There are hollow spots where human bodies once lay in repose, now long disintegrated. The cavities are not entirely hollow, for possessions the dead remained behind.
Benefits:
+10% population growth
Penalties:
None Duration:
7 days

Blaze of Glory [Common]
Cost 12 Essence
[Sign in] These coherent particles of energy appear to be semiconscious in nature, being attracted to each other and willfully searching for similar particles in the universe. Upon analysis, they appear to somehow modulate themselves to the thought patterns of nearby organisms, capable of manifesting the imagination and memories of certain others into material projections.
Benefits:
+2% power gain
Penalties:
None Duration:
3 days

Connectors of Crux [Angelic]
Cost 59 Essence
[Sign in] The original purpose of the orb is hard to guess. It’s a shiny metallic thing, with various antennas poking out. You can make out faded logos on its surface. A cloud of debris surrounds the orb. Metal of all kinds seems attracted to the satellites. Most of it seems to be hunks of rock especially laden with ore, but broken parts of space ships, wrecked metal and other, less recognizable things can be seen drifting about. It might be a good source of raw material… or artifacts.
Benefits:
+15% essence generation
Penalties:
-10% population growth
-10% military defense
Duration:
14 days

Cordellian Slowships [Common]
Cost 8 Essence
[Sign in] Many of these ships have been found still sailing through the cosmic flow of space, believed to originate from the destruction of the Cordellian cluster by the Black Sun. Fearing the worst, the civilization lacking warp technology nonetheless created large numbers of crude but effective stasis ships. Within each of these ships lies survivors from the menace of the first war, still waiting to be awakened.
Benefits:
+2% population growth
Penalties:
None Duration:
3 days

Crux Earth [Angelic]
Cost 42 Essence
[Sign in] At one time, this must have been a natural wonder for the people of the lost world. Its giant mesa, shaped incongruously like an upside coffee mug. The stone is layered, reflecting the many layers of rock and sediment that make up its colorful bulk. It lazily drifts in the void, almost creating a sense it’s enjoying the change of view, for surely it was ancient even before the end of its world.
Benefits:
+15% military defense
+10% population growth
Penalties:
-10% trade profit
Duration:
14 days

Crux Fire [Angelic]
Cost 84 Essence
[Sign in] A strange accumulation of fiery rock and silvery metals still molten after its long exodus through the voids of space. within the interior, something like a naked tongue of fire can be witnessed, still inciting and searing the amorpheous mass from within. Oddly enough, if introduced to an atmosphere, it solidifies into a single amber formation.
Benefits:
+15% military attack
+10% recruitment
Penalties:
-10% military defense
Duration:
14 days

Crux Ice [Angelic]
Cost 114 Essence
[Sign in] A massive, jagged hunk of ice the size of many planetoids and moons that spears through the gap of space with enormous speeds, accumulating velocity ever since its original ejection from the destruction of a planet. A pale, greenish illumination luminates from the surface of the ice and it carries an inexplicable sense of goodwill.
Benefits:
+15% morale
+10% power gain
Penalties:
-5% military attack
-5% military defense
Duration:
14 days

Crux Wind [Angelic]
Cost 96 Essence
[Sign in] A swirling vortex of stellar gasses, rocky shards and loose metal that prowls through the galaxy with a malign intelligence with a peculiarly destructive behavior. Seeking out the nearest construction, whether it be an orbital station or a fleet of ships, it proceeds to engulf and swallow the target. Oddly enough, the eye of the storm contains evidence of terrestial origins: water, soil, and even the stray statue.
Benefits:
+15% trade profit
+10% power gain
Penalties:
-10% population growth
+10% troop upkeep
+10% limbo upkeep
Duration:
14 days

Crystal Gateway [Angelic]
Cost 89 Essence
[Sign in] A strange, sculpted edifice of clear quartz, with cloudy knots in the hard interior of the artifact clearly visible within its oblong form. The form of an archway can be seen carved at one end of the artifact, although it leads directly into a dead end into the crystal. Rumor has it that energetic humanoid forms occasionally be glimpsed inside.
Benefits:
+25% power gain
No Idolworship
Penalties:
-10% trade profit
Duration:
14 days

Golem Manual [Common]
Cost 5 Essence
[Sign in] Once one of Oberon's chosen invading forces, the Golems were incredibly powerful battlesuits who could be deployed directly from space when worn by his worshippers. Their creation was a secret that Oberon kept even from the other gods, but limited tomes such as this one were distributed to allow his children to supplement their forces in times of necessity. When read aloud, the power inherent in this Manual will assemble several hundred Golems from raw cosmic dust and lightning.
Benefits:
+2% military attack
Penalties:
None Duration:
3 days

Harvest of Theol [Rare]
Cost 18 Essence
[Sign in] "And the seer pointed his staff thrice at the fields, where the crops were withered and mingled with tares that stole the goodness of the soil. And behold, where Theol had pointed, the goodly plants increased, withering not but thriving and the tares shrank in shame before the prophet. So he commanded the fields to grow in abundance, until the roots of the goodly plants stran strangled the tares and the fields glit golden under the suns." -- The Codex of Gehenna
Benefits:
+5% population growth
No Famine
Penalties:
None Duration:
7 days

Heart of the Planet [Divine]
Cost 329 Essence
[Sign in] The size of a moon, this enormous orb of ruby is roughly cut into the form of a misshappened sphere, budging on one end. Long lines of darkness spread like fingers across the surface, resembling the veins of a living creature more than a natural growth. Upon closer examination, any small cracks made into the ruby's surface fissure and explode into a geyster of molten gems and magma, serving to seal over the crack. It is almost as if it is trying to heal itself.
Benefits:
+25% population growth
+20% trade profit
+20% morale
+10% military defense
No Doubt
No Idolworship
Penalties:
-75% recruitment
-75% military attack
+75% limbo upkeep
Duration:
28 days

Living Ore [Rare]
Cost 15 Essence
[Sign in] This is a large, independent formation of jagged minerals that had been torn off from some intergalatical disaster once, as evidence of life in fossilized forms still are evident in this adrift mountain range. Oddly enough, the very rock appears to absorb sunlight and is propagating in size.
Benefits:
+2% power gain
No Doubt
No Idolworship
Penalties:
-2% morale
Duration:
7 days

Oberon's Face [Unique]
Cost 916 Essence
[Sign in] A large statue, perhaps twice the size of a man, made of scarred marble. Originally, it must have shown a man wearing a toga, with his hands raised in a gesture of friendship or exhortation. The savage description of the planet that would have formed its base left its mark on the former masterpiece. The great heat melted the face, causing it to flow into an expression of woe and despair. The hand on the left side twisted and turned down, creating a dichotomy with the right, still turned up.
Benefits:
Negative events are less likely
Penalties:
-25% morale
-25% military attack
Duration:
14 days

Oil Orb [Angelic]
Cost 44 Essence
[Sign in] A gigantic piece of crust floats in space, its hollow interior cracked open like an egg shell. It slowly rotates, allowing the tons of oil contained within to leak out and form a black cloud around it. Much of this oil has frozen solid around the asteroid, coating it in its own juices. The process is reminiscent of a pearl.
Benefits:
-25% troop upkeep
Penalties:
+10% limbo upkeep
Duration:
14 days

Raven's Curse [Divine]
Cost 329 Essence
[Sign in] "The astral raven is a creature of the gods, its coming a portent of the Old Times, when Oberon held sway from the throne of Crux. Though its presence is rare in modern history, it is believed that certain lodestones are capable of attracting flocks of the nearly mythical creatures. They infuse the very planet with an bluish-white energy, filling the hearts of men with courage and banishing errors in judgment. Governors become wise, bankers cautious, and even the town idiot seems to be taking his time before spouting his idiocities. Tis most fascinating." -- Lore of the Traveller
Benefits:
+30% population growth
+15% morale
+15% defense
Penalties:
-10% military attack
-50% limbo transfer speed
Duration:
28 days

Sangdrax [Divine]
Cost 232 Essence
[Sign in] This appears to be a normal boulder, of some deep stratum, until closer inspection. Eerie fossils of unimaginable age, are encased with the protective coating of the rock. There are the usual tiny organisms, fascinating to a scientist perhaps, but it is the skeleton that draws the eye. Belonging to some enormous reptile, it has two long necks surmounted by snake-like heads. Could there really have been such a species, or was it a unique freak?
Benefits:
+25% limbo transfer speed
+15% military attack
+15% military defense
+15% recruitment
Penalties:
-50% population growth
-20% power gain
-15% essence generation
Duration:
28 days

Small Crux Factory [Rare]
Cost 28 Essence
[Sign in] The size of a small moon, this strange device appears to be an ancient factory bearing the mark of a long lost god. It still continues to generate large quantities of small goods, such as ball bearings or optical crystals, gaining the raw materials by attacking asteroids and is guided by a strange internal sentience.
Benefits:
+10% trade profit
Penalties:
None Duration:
7 days

Sword of Light [Unique]
Cost 1'170 Essence
[Sign in] It is difficult to imagine a window large enough for such a gigantic sheet of glass. Whether it was meant for a collossal starship or a telescope of unheard of proportions is unknown, but regardless, this gigantic pane of glass, miraculously unmarred, is spinning through the cold vacuum of space. For each revolution it makes, it bends and refracts starlight, creating prismatic wonders. Sometimes the lights seem like an aura borealis and others like something is reaching from beyond its surface.
Benefits:
+500% Temple efficiency
Free limbo transfer
Black Sun defense
Penalties:
None Duration:
7 days

The Word [Common]
Cost 7 Essence
[Sign in] An individual note of an ancient universal song underpinning the very nature of the cosmos. Certain scholars have suspected that if the entire concert is completed and unified, it may tell of an unspeakable truth of all existence. Even small portions of this song has been invaluable, hinting and often prescient of the future.
Benefits:
+2% morale
Penalties:
None Duration:
3 days

Tourist's Museum [Divine]
Cost 348 Essence
[Sign in] A whole building floats in the ravenous void. It was once a museum of novelty and strangeness that would have orbited the annihilated planet. The power is long dead, rendering the flashy signs cold and the windows dark. From cracks and breaks in the structure, a colorful assortment of knick knacks and oddities has leaked out. Posters proclaiming the impossible has been done, supposed artifact from far off cultures and times, and weird stuffed animals are just some of the things floating.
Benefits:
+30% trade profit
+10% essence generation
Penalties:
-25% morale
-15% military defense
Duration:
28 days