Scoured Stars

The Scoured Stars is a trinary star system located in The Vast, known to contain with vicious fauna and other dangerous inhabitants. Until recently it was off from all travel, divination, and mundane scanning by a shifting veil of aurum energy known as the Godshield. The Scoured Stars Incident resulted in the Starfinder Society finding a way past the veil, and repelling the Jinsuls who occupied several planets in the Scoured Stars system. Now for the first time in living memory, some of its native inhabitants have begun to return to their homeworlds that their ancestors had fled generations ago.

Geography

The Scoured Stars consists of three stars revolving around a common barycenter:

• Agillae, an orange dwarf orbited by five terrestrial planets in the Goldilocks zone
• Bastiar, a yellow dwarf orbited by five terrestrial planets, a gas giant with more than 36 moons, and two ice giants
• Callion, a red dwarf orbited by two tidally locked planets which are always on opposite sides of the Starfinder Society

History

The Scoured Stars were the original home of eight civilizations living under the protection of their patron deity Kadrical, who used all of his power to maintain the Godshield and isolate the Scoured Stars from the rest of the universe, despite his worshippers' pleas to be allowed to explore the galaxy. At one point during The Gap, the shield faltered, and the residents of the Scoured Stars wasted no time in building starships to escape. The eight civilizations went their separate ways, each settling in a distant place in the Vast. Kadrical wanted them to return, so he sent them eight magical artifacts known as Tears, one per civilization, to serve as their beacon and key back home.

The Starfinder Society decided over a century ago to prohibit exploration of the region both because of its obvious dangers and because the few missions that scouted the systems yielded few to no useful discoveries. This changed when First Seeker Jadnura discovered a Tear on Kukanou-2b and spearheaded a massive expedition, composed of nearly 80% of the Society's assets and agents, into the Scoured Stars to explore its connection to the Tear. Upon their arrival, the members of the expedition found themselves trapped by the Godshield, which cut their contact with the outside world, while also beset by numerous threats that greatly thinned their numbers.

The Society's expedition was noticed by the jinsuls, one of the eight civilizations that originally left the Scoured Stars. The following year, the jinsuls set out to build a large fleet to return to their ancestral homeland in a sacred pilgrimage and reclaimed it, in the process coming into conflict with the Society, as Jadnura's successor as First Seeker Luwazi Elsebo led another mission to the Scoured Stars to successfully rescue the trapped Starfinders.

Inhabitants

Among the eight civilizations native to the Scoured Stars who left it, the following are known:

• The Izalguuns, who settled on Izalraan
• The Jinsuls, who continued to fanatically worship Kadrical under the leadership of his herald Dhurus, returned to the Scoured Stars, and seek to force the other seven civilizations to return as well and reunite them under an empire with the jinsuls as rulers
• The Kreiholm Freehold (consisting of the Nelentus, Thyrs, among others), who took several planets in the Saaruq-Ruaan System as their new home
• the Mentrasi, originally from Bastiar-2, who moved to Kukanou-2b where they eventually went extinct.