The five centuries of the Great Acceleration had transformed the planet Eternia from a pastoral Prime World into a terrifying engine of cosmic law. Within the localized 1,000x time dilation field, the empire had aged half a millennium, while to the external universe of the Kyros Hegemony, only six months had passed since High Arbiter Vane had vanished into the hexagonal rift.
The landscape of the world was no longer recognizable. The oceans of Aquabyss had been reinforced with subterranean mana-conductors, turning the entire planetary water mass into a liquid super-processor.
