El'Ora
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Template:InfoboxPlanetEl'Ora, commonly called Shroudling by Humans, is a hypo-anomalous planet located in the outer-reaches of the Sa'Kia system. El'Ora is most famously known for its anomalous properties, which it gained in the 138th millennium. It is theorized that The Shroud decided that El'Ora was a good host for it to passively spread and grow, as there was barely any Xa'Thin life on it prior.
Shroud Affiliation
El'Ora is also home to many Shroud Spheres, which occasionally arrive to meet up with other Shroud Spheres. These entities are also known to release trace amounts of minerals into the air, as a form of exhaust. This is quite unique to El'Ora.
Many professional psions which have entered The Shroud near El'Ora have experienced a large feeling of boredom and hopelessness, akin to its past self. This feeling is applied to almost every sapient creature, at least 500 kilometers away from El'Ora.
If a professional psion enters The Shroud on El'Ora's surface, they could be met with one of a few things. Many people have described it as glowing lights and spheres, while others have seen El'Ora as a glassy looking sphere, with unknown crystals in the interiors. Expeditions to these locations have shown empty cave systems, likely caused by the mining millennia ago.
Past
El'Ora used to be a small and frigid ice planet, with no notable features. As a result, it was thinly populated, as well as looked over in many situations. The only population of El'Ora were scientists, looking for traces of life. Even those people didn't last long on El'Ora, making it equivalent to Sedna or Haumea in popularity.
El'Ora, for most of its modern existence, has had little to no inhabitants across all of its surface. A theorized underground sea was also absent, making it all the more featureless. Many mining corporations took advantage of this, and illegally strip mining the surface underneath. Once its small amount of resources was exhausted in the 10 millennium, there was no activity on its surface for many years at a time.
When the Xa'Thin Commonwealth was initially created, the new government decided to shine some light to the husk of a world. Many government officials paid travelers and tourists to live on El'Ora, similar to how Humans would pay people to live in the barren lands of the Klondike back in the 2nd Millennium, or Haumea in more modern instances. This made El'Ora have a constant stream of inhabitants, and an overall population of 50 million.
The Shrouding of El'Ora
After many years, decades, and millennia of staying on El'Ora, settlers grew tired of the barren icy surface. Even with their large paychecks, most left left, making El'Ora desolate once more.
Around this time, it is theorized that The Shroud had sweeped by the Sa'Kian system to check up, and decided to take El'Ora as an outpost for the Sa'Kian system. The small amount of settlers on El'Ora witnessed this, and decided to stay. Many psions in the area also noticed, and went to study the cache of knowledge now on El'Ora.
The inevitable wave of excitement and mystery passed by Lo'Kira only minutes later, and many tourists flocked to El'Ora, now dotted with beautiful and anomalous structures. The cave systems had also appeared to fill up with gateway or wormhole structures, making access for The Shroud all the easier.
Many worshippers of The Shroud also took notice to this change, and arrived at El'Ora to establish beautiful structures and shrines. Many of these buildings, most notably The El'Ora Spire, has garnered a large deal of attention to the once forgotten world.
The overwhelmed settlers took kindly to this change, finally getting a whiff of home. With all of the new residents setting up their places, many colonists and current citizens felt a great sense of pride and happiness. For the first time in a long time, El'Ora seemed friendly and beautiful.