“Memory is heavier than command, which is why it must come first.”

• Archivist-Primus Selrek Daan
  

Sanctum Prime is a world engineered around a colossal All-Father Prime reliquary, a memory core recovered from Original Terra after the Sundering. Though inert by every technical measure, it is perpetually powered as a symbolic and ritual anchor. The planet’s continents radiate outward from this center in deliberate symmetries and sacred geometries, with cities, fortresses, and sanctuaries aligned along vast processional axes that enforce a cultural sense of inevitability and return. Nothing on Sanctum Prime is built without reference to the core.

Memory Gardens dominate the surface, forming continuous sanctified regions rather than isolated archives. The dead are not merely remembered, but actively consulted. Chorial voices are woven into public spaces, transit corridors, and civic halls, creating an unbroken chorus of ancestral guidance. Citizens are raised within this accumulation of counsel, where governance, worship, and lineage are inseparable. Authority on Sanctum Prime is never singular or contemporary. It is layered with those who witnessed the All-Father Prime firsthand.

As a result, Garmethdes adherents raised on Sanctum Prime do not experience the All-Father as absent or lost. He is present through memory and instruction. Despite its reverence for human continuity, Sanctum Prime exists in persistent tension with the Echelon Code. the Garmethdes Covenant insists that authority remains human because decisions are issued by living hands, yet those hands are rarely unaccompanied.

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