An icy world, hidden deep in Raptid space and skirting the very edge of the Communion’s Interspace Network, Precipice hosts one of the pillars of raptidkind – an orbital nest.
After an era of pushing their technology harder and faster than their own evolution, many horrors befell the raptids. Losing their ability to fly was just one example. They even began to lose their capacity for new life.
The construction of a massive orbital nest was their answer – a facility capable of breaking the barrier, all whilst supporting the future generation of raptids. Precipice was only one of the planets that would harbour it over the years, being a part of a rotation of worlds that were of primary importance to the raptids.
All of the host planets named in the raptid archives are devoid of organic life and inhabited by only a few raptids, who monitor for geological instabilities and solar events which would endanger objects in orbit. What other work they do, if any, was not revealed in the archives.
This network of damaged planets would suggest that raptid space is much larger than previously thought, and that they once suffered a great interstellar cataclysm. However, even as the raptids fled north after the Sentience War, they severed these planets from their well established interspace network, ensuring that it would be of great difficulty for humans to access them. Ancient coordinates are the only way for a skilled navigator to reach them.
‘Precipice,’ is a human name for the planet. Tetra’tek’ve is the raptid name.
Precipice was so named by Orpheus Regelus, after his fall from orbit and subsequent rebirth as an Anti-Xarinthian – the Precipice of Betrayal.