Arcanis Prime

Arcanis Prime carries major institutional weight and appears in Oron’s academy sequence, with terraces and cliffs on a plateau beneath twin suns. Its relationship to Arcanis, described elsewhere around a yellow dwarf with two moons, is not established.

At a glance

• Academy plateau with sweeping terraces and cliffs
• Twin suns in the academy passage
• Governance, research and medical institutions in the Codex

In the novel

Selected passages from P.X: No Man’s Space.

Above Arcanis Prime, the air wore the lie of an ordinary cycle. The academy plateau basked in late light, its sweeping terraces alive with low discussion as cadets gathered their tablets, their arguments, and the certainties Oron had spent the last hour dismantling.

The cadets stood in loose formations, their light-cream uniforms catching the last amber from the twin suns.

A rising sequence of pulses struck the cliffs and came back harder, a rhythm every Arcanian was drilled to know and almost none had heard for real. Not here. Not above Arcanis Prime.