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Exodus Prime is the capital of both Mnencheiasus and the Mnenchei Monarchy. Located in the largest of three moons of Sikune, Exodus Prime is the pinnacle of Mnenchei perseverance and society. The city itself is rather large, so great in size in fact, it is just barely able to reach a curvature due to the small circumference of the moon. It, like most of Sikune, has an artificially engineered atmosphere that is retained to the surface of the small moon via small gravity wells. At the heart of it all is the Castle-Monastery of the Ankai, the home of the Queen, the Royal Clan and the Royal Guard and political assistants. It is a grand structure large in scope, renaissance in form but modern in integrity, built by only the finest Mnenchei artisans and smiths. The treasury vaults are located under the castle-monastery and smaller, more numerous vaults exist in secure locations throughout the city to house vast quantities of Kalestat, the highly valued crystal of Mnencheiasus. The city itself is incredibly defensible, manned under the rule of Ankai Alachei Mnemenos by approximately 100,000 trained militant police officials who have access to light walkers, tanks and high-grade firearms. Many starports and dry docks also line the outer walls of the city, once used to house part of the Royal Navy now more often than not vacant, seeing only a few dozen privately-owned or Republic passerby military vessels on all of Sikune at any given time. An embassy with included Senate office was established adjacent to the the castle-monastery and outside of its gates in light of the recent annex under the Galactic Republic umbrella, though without the need for a Senate staff with an acting Ankai in place, it sees no use.
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The Monastery of Ri'ess is a moderately modernized but old-fashioned structure predating the Mnenchei Dominion and even the current Dynasty. As old as the shaman sect themselves, the original had always stood as a homestead for those in service to the goddess and secretly to the Enclave. After the cataclysm that wrought Mnencheiasus and emerged vast quantities of Kalestat Crystal, it was all but destroyed. Not too far from the original (uninhabitable and treasureless) monastery now stands the new one, nestled deep within a high mountain valley where magma is known to surface and flow into one of the many lava seas now blotting the surface of the once-elegant world. The monastery has many amenities, including comfortable housing for up to a hundred (though largely unused), training and meditation centers, a hidden hangar virtually never used and a private mine with an underground hot spring lake. Only the Justiciary, the Ankai and the Enclave know its existence or whereabouts; even then, it is largely kept in the dark and not known to exist to the rest of the galaxy, even the Republic. Items considered relics of the Royal Clan or of divine significance via Ri'ess are kept here safely in chambers made to be even lava resistant.
