“What endures is not will, but structure built to outlast it.”

• Chief Architect of the First Moon, Heliand Registry

Heliand Registry is a tightly bound orbital system of five inhabited moons circling a stable primary. It was settled late in the Fracturing by proto-Lexwright architects, administrators, and systems engineers who rejected the limited planetary governance of the colonies.

The system was designed as an instrument rather than a seat of power. Authority is deliberately divided, with each moon purpose-built to oversee a single administrative and engineering domain. No single moon governs. Instead governance emerges through unified consensus, one of the first physical embodiments of the Chain.

Lexwright officials are never assigned permanently to a single moon. Advancement requires rotational service across multiple domains, forcing each individual to reconcile competing constraints. No Lexwright may rise to senior authority without having served in at least three distinct operational environments. 

For much of the Tenebrium Age, Heliand’s linked shipyards and orbital forges produced some of Cortex’s greatest civic works and war constructs. As Tenebrium supplies dwindled during the Severance War, Heliand’s furnaces slowed. In response, the system shifted to refinement. Modern development-complexes focus on modular architecture, logistics doctrine, and schematic frameworks designed to be deployed by Commanders and ground forces.

Though many high-level civic functions were later transferred to Lex Primus, Heliand Registry remains politically untouchable. It was the first structural anchor of post-Sundering Cortex governance. More importantly, the system retains the capacity to resume full production should Tenebrium return in mass to the Cerebrant Domain.

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