Lithex Optimus

One of the three Lithex Forge Worlds that produce the majority of the sector's manufactured goods.

Panoptica, a feral world, is in the same system - feral world with a terrifyingly diverse biome, carefully managed by the biologians of Optimus. Samples are collected from across the sector and beyond and cultivated on Panoptica; these seeding projects induce reverence and fear in the scattered tribes who inhabit the intellectually fascinating but physically perilous planet.

= Technology =
 * Finest Collegium Biologis around, with the current head Magos almost always being of the Biologis school. Their medicae facilities across the Regalia sub are sought after by those who are privileged enough to access them, and their knowledge base is bolstered by centuries of extensive human vivisection thanks to a steady supply of research subjects from the Mosscoh system.
 * Excellent at plasma engineering; licensed to produce many Ryza patterns and capable of constructing well tuned and reliable plasma drives.
 * Forcefield tech - emplacements and voidshields mostly, but bespoke personal fields are all the rage in the spires of Cynn

= Politics =

Relations with rest of sector
Optimus isn't particularly involved outside of the Regalia sub, viewing Regalia as their domain. Does send support to the Excellon Line, particularly Astreus.

Internal Power Structure
Though there is variation within the society (Optimus being a forge world of fractured opinions), on the whole the world is pro-Cawl. Optimus is the most radical of the Lithex worlds and their increasingly open approach to technological novelty has allowed some Optimus magi who would previously be called heretek to come into the light.

= Geography = World-greenhouse, with untold numbers of carefully cultivated plants being managed by hideous vat-grown servitors. Colossal rigid-bodied aerostats hover over the towering canopy of vegetation, distributing the servitors and collecting up crops using slaved harvesting vessels.

Optimus itself mostly grows industrially useful biological materials, in contrast with the wild ecological experimentation of Panoptica. Mechanicus research and manufacturing strongholds are hidden among valleys - sanguine red domes and towers protected by glimmering forcefields.

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