The Maraveth Core Chamber is an underground facility beneath Isandro's Palace in the imperial Maraveth, on Valrindor. It houses a core.
The Maraveth Core Chamber is a secured underground research facility beneath Isandro's Palace in Maraveth, on the imperial Valrindor. It houses the Maraveth Core, which performs much of the Malverand Intergalactic Empire’s navigation.
Structure and operation
An unassuming elevator off a palace corridor descends to a door opened through a hand scanner. Beyond a narrow passage lies a domed chamber large enough to rival a small city. Power generators, warp engines and large cylinders surround the undulating red core, enclosed in several layers of glass. Thick cables converge on it, while hanging metal bridges connect the surrounding platforms. Workers in white leather jackets move between the machinery and consoles beneath warm yellow lights.
A wall holds artifacts and devices beside a semicircular gate. Essence repellers protect the core against becoming sentient. The gate is connected to the facility’s power supply so the core’s essence can be banished into the void if it cannot be contained. Researchers also use it to reach Stella Aeterna, following an electrical cable through the void.
History
Helena Hyperion obtained the council’s permission to build the underground facility and led its research with Isandro. Eamon, Rafe and Mike joined their work on a system intended to manage the empire and improve itself. The early core combined Earth technology with preserved brains, in a room constantly drained of essence. Limited power initially restricted it to brief calculations. These hidden experiments were separate from the science station and later demonstration chamber that Hyperion destroyed.
Helena later infused her own essence into the core. It became sentient, but the essence soon overwhelmed it: its functions broke down and it began trying to alter its own code. She proposed isolating the essence and particles it had gathered and banishing them through the researchers’ gate into the void.
In Thalena’s Shores of Eternity, the chamber became an evacuation route during the Spiral Mandate attack. Thalena redirected power cables into the gate; a red pulse traveled through a cable, and the core’s protective glass fractured. When she returned, machinery lay ruined and toxic air filled the chamber. Mike and Eamon later restored power to the gate, reconnecting the two worlds, but did not build another core.