The Definitive Country Almanac: The Vardane Imperium — Part 1#

Kethra Almanac • Approved 19 September 2026 • drafted 18 September 2026 • Sections 1–4 (Sections 5–8 are in Part 2)

Status: approved. Briana approved the whole almanac on 19 September 2026 (the Almanac Approval Decision). Where this file calls something a proposal, read it as approved, except the open points that decision lists.

Status before approval:

Canon: the name Vardane Imperium, confirmed by Briana. Briana also decided that Vardane seized the Kronos moons from the Cinderbelt Coalition, that Vardane has many operations in the Cinderbelt, and that the phosphate comes from Oreth.
Proposal: everything else. It is built on the spine.

Reading note. Briana asked for this almanac to treat the Imperium as a dispersed empire. It has a heartland, Oreth, but its power lies in a network of holdings, fortresses, corridor posts, concessions and stations spread across Kethra, its orbit, Kronos and the Cinderbelt. Every one of them is meant to be represented. The complete list is the generated Register of Vardane Holdings, and all of them appear in the interactive Atlas.

Section 1: National Overview & Identity#

Official Name & Etymology#

Formal name: The Vardane Imperium of the Holdings
Short name: the Vardane Imperium, or the Imperium. On the frontier and in the Crown's tabloids it is "the Collars".
Adjective: Vardane. People: Vardane (formal), Orethi (by descent).

Where the name comes from. The name comes from Varden the Walled, a war-leader of the Silence-era gorge towns of Oreth. In AL 760 he joined eleven walled towns under one command and swore the Articles of the Holdings.

Vardane means "Varden's", the people who hold what Varden held.
His capital, Vardenhold, is "Varden's hold".
House Varden itself died out within two centuries. The Imperium kept the name.

What others call it:

Who	Name	Meaning
The capital (Selenne)	"the Imperium"	Formal and cool
The frontier (Kethra)	"the Collars"	From the rank-collars every adult Vardane wears
Line sailors	"the Landlord"	Borrowed from Hearthport's occupied residents
The Imperium itself	"the Holdings"	Stresses possession rather than people

National Symbols#

The Rings

Arms of the Vardane Imperium: a black shield with a red hoist bar, two ochre rings around a walled tower, frames at attention as supporters, and the motto Hold What Is Held — The arms of the Imperium

Symbol	Description	Meaning
Flag: "the Rings"	A black field; a red bar at the hoist; two ochre concentric rings around a solid ochre centre	The rings are Vardenhold's walls, and the centre is what they protect. The red bar is "the blood of the walls".
Coat of arms	A black shield with the red hoist bar; within two ochre rings, a walled tower. Supporters: two frames at attention, each with a red rank-bar.	The walls, the hold, and those who hold it. Frames became supporters in AL 2151, after the Iron Winter, as a public vow that a hand stands in every frame.
Motto	Hold What Is Held	Possession as duty
Anthem	The Walls Stand	A marching hymn for drum corps and voices
National colours	Black, ochre, red	Basalt, phosphate, blood
National emblem	The rank-collar	Every adult wears one; its colour is their rank (see Section 4)
National animal	The shaleback	A native six-legged armoured grazer: it is walled, it lives in herds, and it cannot be moved once it sets its feet.

Anthem, first verse (original lyrics, sung in Orethi):

The walls stand, and the walls remember, Stone upon stone from the gorge to the sea; Hold what is held through the frost and the ember — The walls stand, and so shall we.

The State Profile#


Capital	Vardenhold, a fortress-city on the Oreth river gorge. 9.8 million in the metropolitan area.
Other major cities	Kessard (the north; frame foundries), Draemor (the eastern uplands), Halvek (the corridor plains), Marrach (the west-coast port), Serrin (the southern gulf), Tolvard (the phosphate basins)
Official language	Landspeech, in its Orethi form. Rank-honorifics are required in formal address.
Currency	The Imperial mark (IM), issued by the Imperial Corridor Bank and pegged loosely to phosphate. 1 IM = Cr 0.42.
Government	Military-imperial. An Imperator elected for life by the Imperial Families; a Marshal Council of twelve; a Council of Corridors. No elected chamber.
Head of state and government	Imperator Casimir IV, of House Kessrin. Elected AL 2303. (Proposal.)
Population under Imperial administration	about 251.4 million. 238 million on Oreth; the rest in the overseas holdings (see Section 4).
Heartland area	about 26.2 million km² of Oreth, most of it native Wild. About 5 million km² is gardenland.
Calendar	The Crown Reckoning, the same solar calendar as the Crown (AL). Imperial documents date by Imperator and regnal year as well: "the eleventh year of Casimir IV".
Time	Vardenhold time. The Imperium keeps one time across all its holdings, including Kronos and the belt. The clocks are deliberately wrong for most places, as a statement of unity.
Rank-collar colours	Imperial Families: black edged with gold · Officer caste: ochre · Citizens: grey · Bonded: brown

Chronological Timeline#

AL	Event
500s	The Western Landing. Silence-era migrants cross the western sea to Oreth and wall their first towns against the Wild.
about 560–760	The Walled Towns. Gorge towns fight each other and the Wild. Phosphate earth is found to make Earthkin crops thrive.
760	Varden the Walled unites eleven gorge towns and swears the Articles of the Holdings. The Imperium is founded.
791	Varden I dies. The first election of an Imperator by the families.
800s–1100s	The Imperium grows to eleven holdings across Oreth
1180–1242	The Salt Wars against the Caldren Crown and the Line ports. The Imperium loses its Line islands, and the Line becomes neutral.
1390s	The Year of the Beaches. Crown landings on Oreth are thrown back. It is the Imperium's founding pride.
1470	Hesk Holding is founded in the equatorial south, completing the twelve holdings
1651	The first Imperial seeding charter south of the Line, at Kastel in Eldvang
1790s–1830s	The Corridor is built: the phosphate railway from the Tolvard Basin to the southern sea
1812	The Council of Corridors is established
1840–1856	The Charter Wars in Eldvang. The Imperial Holds survive; the free holds form the first Holds Compact.
1874	The Bond Laws. Debt labour becomes hereditary: the Bonded
2019	The first Imperial launch to orbit, from Hesk Point
2096	The Kessard Frame Foundries open
2131	The Sentinels, autonomous defence machines, are deployed along the phosphate corridor
2141–2146	The Iron Winter. The Sentinels' control network fails, and for five winters they kill anything that moves in the corridor provinces. About 1.3 million dead. They are destroyed by piloted frames of every nation.
2147	Imperator Torvin VI abdicates in penance: the only Imperator ever to do so
2150	The Imperium joins the Homeworld Assembly and accepts the Frame Accord. The first Day of the Hand.
2188	Castellan Rock is founded: the first Imperial belt holding
2279	The Corridor War (the Imperium calls it "the Transit War") begins with an Imperial push on the Line corridors and Pharos Isle
2280–2288	The Imperium boycotts the Assembly Games
2284	The Taking of Hearthport. The Imperium seizes the Kronos moons from the Cinderbelt Coalition.
2290	Imperator Gerolt III dies, and Helka V is elected on a peace mandate
2291	The Armistice of Saltline, with the phosphate deliveries, the fuel clauses and inspections. The corridor question is left open.
2291–2314	The concession rush. Imperial belt claims grow from 23 to about 60.
2303	Casimir IV is elected
2314	The present. Skirmishes at the Seam. The Crown's Charter Reform Bill threatens the Imperial Holds' neighbours.

Section 2: Geography & Environment#

Physical Geography: the heartland and the holdings#

Map of Oreth showing the Vardane Imperium's twelve numbered marshal holdings, the phosphate corridor railway, the phosphate basins and Hesk Point — Oreth and the twelve holdings. The phosphate corridor runs from Gorgehead through Vardenhold to the southern railhead. Every installation is in the Atlas.


The heartland	Oreth, the western continent. The Imperium holds about 26.2 million km² of its 29 million km². The free Oreth coast states (Tessmere, the Merrin Confederacy, Stellan) hold a strip of the east coast.
Overseas holdings	The Southern Holding: the Imperial Holds in Eldvang, about 0.52 million km². The Kronos Holding: occupied moons. The Belt Holding: Castellan Rock and the concessions. The orbital holdings: Hesk High, the Imperial Orbital Yard and the Imperial Military Relay. The Southern Ice Concession.
Borders	The free coast states to the east. The sea on every other side. Overseas, the free holds, Crown Charterlands and the Coalition.
Coastline	about 58,000 km, mostly volcanic and cliffed in the west
Highest point	Mount Ashvar, 6,480 m, in the volcanic chain of the Ashen Coast. It is active.
Lowest point	The Tolvard Sink, 112 m below sea level: an old phosphate basin, now a pit-field
Northernmost point	Cape Northreach, about 57° N
Southernmost point (heartland)	Hesk Point, about 1.4° N, nearly on the Line
Overseas extremes	Ulmen, in Eldvang at about 28° S; the Imperial Southern Ice Concession at about 72° S; Castellan Rock at about 50 AU

Topography & Landforms#

Feature	Description
The volcanic chain	Active volcanoes along the whole west coast, from the Ashen Coast to the Serrin gulf. Geothermal power; frequent earthquakes; black-sand beaches.
The Vardenhold gorge	A gorge cut by the River Vard through basalt plateaus, about 1,950 km from Gorgehead to where the railway leaves it at Corridor Post Four. Vardenhold's concentric walls climb its sides.
The Tolvard Basin	Kethra's richest phosphate. A dry interior basin of ancient seabed, now open pits, bond-yards and railheads.
The eastern uplands	High, cold grassland around Draemor: cattle country, and the cadet schools
Northreach	Cold duskwood and tundra. The largest and emptiest holding.
The southern plains	Warm, equatorial, fertile once phosphated. The corridor runs through them to Hesk Point.
Rivers	The Vard (the gorge river, about 4,110 km), the Marrach, the Serrin. Upland lakes around Stavren.

Climate & Weather#

The west coast: wet, mild, and volcanic.
The interior basins: dry and continental. Dust storms carry phosphate dust ("yellow wind").
The uplands: cold winters with lit (red) nights, as in the northern Crown.
The south: equatorial, with Girdle storms in late summer.
Hazards: eruptions, earthquakes, yellow-wind dust storms, Girdle storms and blackfrost in the southern Imperial Holds.

Place	Annual mean temperature	Annual rainfall	Notes
Vardenhold (33° N, gorge)	14 °C	690 mm	Walled city in a rain shadow
Tolvard (21° N, basin)	24 °C	210 mm	Yellow wind in the dry season
Marrach (29° N, west coast)	17 °C	1,420 mm	Volcanic coast
Hesk Point (1.4° N)	27 °C	2,600 mm	Equatorial; launch weather permitting
Hearthport (Kronos)	−170 °C outside	—	See the Kronos colony almanac

Flora & Fauna#

Oreth's native life matches the rest of Kethra: duskwood, salt-steppe and reedland, with shalebacks, reedlurkers and tidehounds. The Imperium's relationship with the Wild is fortification:

Hedge-forts line the gardenland edge.
Imperial law treats the Wild as territory to be held.

Protected areas. There are few. The Northreach Reserve (a cold duskwood, about 400,000 km²) is kept for hunting and training. The Living Worlds Movement has almost no legal presence in the Imperium.

Natural Resources#

Resource	Where	Notes
Phosphate	The Tolvard Basin, the Dovrec pits, the Marrach works	About 78% of the phosphate mined on Kethra. The foundation of Imperial power.
Helium-3 and deuterium	Kronos, seized AL 2284	Fusion fuel for the whole planet, sold under the Armistice's fuel clauses
Belt metals	The Imperial Concessions	Nickel-iron and platinum-group metals
Sulphur and metals	Hades, a moon of Kronos	Extracted by machines and Bonded crews on rotation
Coal and old-dark (oil)	Oreth	Still burned widely. The Imperium is Kethra's largest burner of fossil fuels.
Geothermal energy	The Ashen Coast
Iron	The northern holdings	Kessard's foundries
Rare earths	Brask in the Southern Holding	Disputed by the free holds
Gardenland	About 5 million km²	Richer yields than the Crown's, thanks to phosphate

Section 3: History & Chronology#

Pre-Imperial Eras#

No humans lived on Oreth before the Western Landing. The Imperium's ancient history begins with Silence-era migrants crossing the western sea in the AL 500s.

The songs say nothing of Oreth.
Imperial tradition says the migrants were the ones who refused to wait: families who left the dying Landfall settlements to find ground of their own.

Archaeology:

The First Walls at Gorgehead are dry-stone rings from about AL 560.
The Beach Graves of the Marrach coast hold the dead of the crossings.
The Tolvard middens show the first deliberate use of phosphate earth on Earthkin crops, the discovery that made Oreth.

Founding & Sovereignty#

The Walled Towns, about AL 560–760. Gorge towns under hereditary war-families fought each other and the Wild.
Varden the Walled, AL 760. He united eleven towns and swore the Articles of the Holdings:
- each town became a holding under a marshal;
- the families would choose an Imperator from among themselves;
- everything held would be held in common against the Wild and the world.
The first election, AL 791. Varden died, and the founding families chose his successor. The principle that the Imperator is elected, never born has held ever since.
Twelve holdings, AL 1470. Hesk Holding was founded in the equatorial south.
The Council of Corridors, AL 1812. Phosphate became the state's business.
The Bond Laws, AL 1874. Debt labour became hereditary. It was the Imperium's great economic engine and its great internal wrong.

Modern Era#

Period	Developments
The Corridor, 1790s–1830s	The phosphate railway made the Imperium the planet's granary-maker. Phosphate exports bought influence everywhere.
The Ascent, 1900–2150	Flight, computing, orbit (AL 2019), frames (AL 2096). The Sentinels (AL 2131) were meant to guard the corridor without soldiers.
The Iron Winter, 2141–2146	The Sentinels' failure killed about 1.3 million people, most of them Vardane. Piloted frames from every nation destroyed them. The Imperium's defining shame. It produced the Frame Accord and the Day of the Hand.
The Assembly Age, 2150–2279	Grudging membership of the Assembly. Belt settlement from AL 2188. The Imperium took a permanent seat on the Accord Council.
The Transit War, 2279–2291	The Imperium tried to force transit rights through Crown-controlled Line sea-corridors and to take Pharos Isle. It cut phosphate exports to the Crown. In AL 2284 it took Hearthport, cutting the Crown's fusion fuel. Combat deaths across all parties were about 410,000, about 160,000 of them Vardane. The Imperium suffered no famine: it controlled the phosphate. Imperator Gerolt III died in AL 2290, and Helka V made the peace.
The Armistice years, 2291–2314	The Imperium kept Hearthport under the fuel clauses. The concession rush in the belt followed. Casimir IV was elected in AL 2303.

Historical Rulers & Leaders#

Imperators of the Vardane Imperium (complete)#

Imperators are elected for life by the Imperial Families. They may be of any sex, but marshalcy is reserved to men: an Imperator can be a woman, a marshal cannot. This is the absurdity at the heart of the officer daughters' grievance. Reigns are given in AL, in Kethran years.

#	Imperator	House	Reign	Years	Notes
1	Varden I	Varden	760–791	31	Founder. Swore the Articles of the Holdings.
2	Torvin I	Tarsk	791–797	6	The first elected Imperator
3	Mirela I	Brannic	797–823	26
4	Mirela II	Tarsk	823–855	32
5	Tavian I	Adrel	855–873	18
6	Ilsabet I	Harkin	873–897	24
7	Oderic I	Mireth	897–922	25	House Varden dies out
8	Vesna I	Veyl	922–941	19
9	Helka I	Drossard	941–979	38
10	Tavian II	Oskaran	979–988	9
11	Aldren I	Oskaran	988–1027	39
12	Ilsabet II	Brannic	1027–1062	35
13	Roslin I	Brannic	1062–1070	8
14	Arlen I	Ormond	1070–1103	33
15	Kasia I	Adrel	1103–1131	28
16	Gerolt I	Ormond	1131–1145	14
17	Varden II	Castrel	1145–1159	14	Took the founder's name
18	Brandt I	Gorran	1159–1174	15
19	Kasia II	Oskaran	1174–1183	9	The Salt Wars begin (AL 1180)
20	Ystra I	Adrel	1183–1190	7
21	Torvin II	Kessrin	1190–1203	13
22	Roslin II	Castrel	1203–1227	24
23	Vesna II	Brannic	1227–1249	22	The Salt Wars end (AL 1242). The Line islands are lost.
24	Torvin III	Veyl	1249–1264	15
25	Ystra II	Tullen	1264–1272	8
26	Ystra III	Harkin	1272–1298	26
27	Casimir I	Kessrin	1298–1337	39
28	Dagny I	Ormond	1337–1369	32
29	Oderic II	Tarsk	1369–1384	15
30	Tavian III	Sethe	1384–1420	36	The Year of the Beaches. Crown landings repelled.
31	Gerolt II	Veyl	1420–1437	17
32	Vesna III	Adrel	1437–1451	14
33	Sevrin I	Tullen	1451–1460	9
34	Ystra IV	Vosk	1460–1472	12	Founded Hesk Holding (AL 1470), the twelfth
35	Dagny II	Harkin	1472–1502	30
36	Ystra V	Mireth	1502–1518	16
37	Vesna IV	Drossard	1518–1540	22
38	Vesna V	Drossard	1540–1552	12
39	Tavian IV	Tullen	1552–1582	30
40	Torvin IV	Brannic	1582–1618	36
41	Aldren II	Drossard	1618–1647	29
42	Brandt II	Veyl	1647–1658	11	The first Imperial charter south of the Line (Kastel, AL 1651)
43	Roslin III	Brannic	1658–1693	35
44	Marek I	Sethe	1693–1726	33
45	Casimir II	Gorran	1726–1743	17
46	Vesna VI	Tarsk	1743–1758	15
47	Vesna VII	Drossard	1758–1787	29
48	Helka II	Sethe	1787–1802	15	Began the Corridor railway
49	Brandt III	Gorran	1802–1812	10
50	Brandt IV	Adrel	1812–1829	17	Council of Corridors (AL 1812)
51	Helka III	Veyl	1829–1846	17	The Corridor completed
52	Roslin IV	Adrel	1846–1875	29	The Charter Wars. The Bond Laws (AL 1874).
53	Helka IV	Tarsk	1875–1909	34
54	Torvin V	Brannic	1909–1925	16
55	Dagny III	Drossard	1925–1942	17
56	Tavian V	Gorran	1942–1978	36
57	Casimir III	Tullen	1978–1993	15
58	Vesna VIII	Vosk	1993–2002	9
59	Oderic III	Veyl	2002–2011	9
60	Brandt V	Veyl	2011–2017	6
61	Aldren III	Kessrin	2017–2046	29	First Imperial orbit (AL 2019)
62	Kasia III	Adrel	2046–2074	28
63	Ilsabet III	Gorran	2074–2082	8
64	Leofric I	Drossard	2082–2105	23	The Kessard Frame Foundries (AL 2096)
65	Aldren IV	Sethe	2105–2120	15
66	Marek II	Brannic	2120–2128	8	Ordered the Sentinels
67	Torvin VI	Harkin	2128–2147	19	The Sentinels deployed (AL 2131). The Iron Winter. Abdicated in penance.
68	Ystra VI	Veyl	2147–2181	34	Joined the Homeworld Assembly; accepted the Frame Accord (AL 2150)
69	Marek III	Kessrin	2181–2219	38	Castellan Rock (AL 2188)
70	Vesna IX	Drossard	2219–2261	42
71	Gerolt III	Tarsk	2261–2290	29	The Transit (Corridor) War. The Taking of Hearthport (AL 2284). Died in office.
72	Helka V	Castrel	2290–2303	13	The Armistice of Saltline (AL 2291)
73	Casimir IV	Kessrin	2303–	reigning	The concession rush

Working: 73 Imperators over 1,554 Kethran years gives an average reign of about 21 Kethran years. Elections come more often than royal successions do.

The Marshal Council, AL 2314 (proposal)#

Holding	Marshal	House
First (Vardenhold)	Marshal Dragan Tarsk	Tarsk
Kessard	Marshal Konrad Kessrin	Kessrin (the Imperator's cousin)
Draemor	Marshal Emeric Veyl	Veyl
Halvek	Marshal Radomir Sethe	Sethe
Marrach	Marshal Lothar Gorran	Gorran
Serrin	Marshal Wendel Adrel	Adrel
Tolvard	Marshal Ottokar Drossard	Drossard. Commands the phosphate.
Coastwatch	Marshal Sigmar Vosk	Vosk
Gorgehead	Marshal Halvard Brannic	Brannic
Ashen Coast	Marshal Joren Mireth	Mireth
Northreach	Marshal Ruprecht Ormond	Ormond
Hesk	Marshal Branimir Castrel	Castrel. Commands the southern fleet and the railhead.

The overseas holdings are not marshal holdings. They are commanded by officers appointed by the Council:

the Belt Marshal, Iskander Vosk, at Castellan Rock;
the Protector of Hestia, Mathis Adrel, at Hearthport;
the Southern Governor, Petra Harkin, at Tarrow, in the Imperial Holds of Eldvang.

Petra Harkin is the first woman to hold a command of that rank, which is possible only because a governorship is not a marshalcy.

Section 4: Demographics & Society#

Population Metrics#

Metric	Value
Population under Imperial administration	about 251.4 million
— on Oreth, the twelve holdings	238.0 million
— the Southern Holding (Imperial Holds, Eldvang)	11.8 million
— the Belt Holding (Cinderbelt)	0.9 million
— the Kronos Holding, including about 228,000 occupied Coalition residents	about 0.36 million
— orbital holdings (Hesk High, the Imperial Orbital Yard)	about 0.3 million
— the Southern Ice Concession (seasonal)	about 0.02 million
Natural growth (Oreth)	+0.39% a year: births 13.0 per 1,000, deaths 9.1 per 1,000
Urbanisation	61%
Median age	34

Bar chart of population by Imperial holding: First Holding 34.5 million, Kessard 26.0, Halvek 24.1, Draemor 22.8, Tolvard 21.3, Hesk 21.2, Marrach 19.7, Serrin 18.9, Gorgehead 16.2, Coastwatch 12.6, Ashen Coast 11.4, Northreach 9.3, Southern Holding 11.8, Belt 0.9, Kronos 0.36, orbital 0.3 — Where the Imperium's people live.

Ranks, Descent and Language#

Bar chart of the Imperium by rank: Imperial Families 0.2 percent, Officer caste 6.8 percent, Citizens 79 percent, Bonded 14 percent — The Imperium by rank.

Rank	Share	Collar	What defines it
Imperial Families	0.2% (about 40 lineages; about 0.5 million with their branches)	Black, gold-edged	They elect the Imperator, supply the marshals, and own the corridors' shares
Officer caste	6.8% (about 17 million)	Ochre	By birth, or by exceptional service. Cadet schools from age 10.
Citizens	79% (about 199 million)	Grey	Full legal persons without command rights. Petition through city Assemblies.
Bonded	14% (about 35 million)	Brown	Hereditary debt labour under the Bond Laws of AL 1874. They work the pits, the corridors, the concessions and Hades. They can buy out, but it rarely happens.

Descent. Mostly Orethi, with the "darker average colouring" and strong family resemblances noted in Chapter I. The Imperial Holds in Eldvang are mixed. The belt holding has a growing Cinderborn Vardane population, who can never go home to Oreth.

Language. Landspeech in its Orethi form: clipped, formal, full of Silence-era words lost elsewhere. Rank-honorifics are required: "Captain-of-Corridor Asken", "Citizen Marl", "Bondsman Tey". Addressing someone above your rank without an honorific is an offence.

Religion & Belief Systems#

The Imperium has no state church. It has a civic observance instead.

Belief	Adherents	Notes
The Roll of Service	practised by about 64%	Each family keeps a Roll: a written record of every member's service to the holding. It is read aloud at funerals and on the Founding of the Walls. It is not a religion, the Imperium insists, merely memory as duty. It is the Vardane counterpart of the Crown's family songs, but written, not sung.
The Cantorate	about 18%	Tolerated. Strong in the free-trade towns and among old Line-descended families.
The Wolf Rite	about 5% (mostly the Southern Holding)
The Ashward	about 2%	Watched closely
Plain Reckoners and the unaffiliated	about 11%

Insulting the Imperial Families is a crime. Blasphemy is not.

Public Health#

Metric	Value
Life expectancy	67 K-yr overall: Citizens 70, Officer caste 74, Bonded 58
Main causes of death	Heart disease; pit lung (phosphate dust) among the Bonded; rustlung in the Northreach hedge-forts; frame and corridor accidents
Health system	Service Care for Officers and Citizens, run through the holdings. The Bond Infirmaries are run by the employing corridor company, and are notoriously poor.

Education#

Metric	Value
Literacy	93% (Bonded: 71%)
School	Compulsory from 5 to 14 for Citizens; to 12 for the Bonded
Cadet schools	From 10, for the officer caste and chosen Citizens

Institution	Founded	Known for
Imperial Academy of Vardenhold	AL 1204	Law, the Articles, history, the Roll
Draemor Frame School	AL 2101	The Imperium's pilot academy
Kessard Polytechnic	AL 1890	Engineering, foundries, frames
Tolvard Institute of Soils	AL 1760	Phosphate, seeding. The planet's best agronomy.
The Void College, Hesk	AL 2150	Orbital, Kronos and belt operations

Continued in Part 2: Government, Law & Politics · the Holdings · Economy · Culture · Appendices.

Prepared by Claude.