The Neptaverse is a collection of habitable planets located within relatively neighboring Wildspace systems when considering the entirety of existence. These planets, that have housed life for thousands of millennia, have evolved into an interplanetary empire named the Silverhost. This realm, the Silverhost Empire, that spans trillions of light years is connected by a set of arcane gates made in an unknown time by an unknown people. These gates, the L'Astra Porta are what the Silverhost is founded upon.

The Empire is governed by the Capa-Senatorum, the House of the Warden-Elects, the all powerful, oversight electorate. It consists of a large number of racial compositions and galactic representatives from every corner and angle of the Neptaverse. This Empire, like all empires before it, is always expanding; reliant on the growth and the industry that comes with it. Expansion has become the focus of the Warden-Elects and with that expansion, comes an exponential growth to the number of threats.

Threats to the Empire's longevity come from everywhere, including within. Its short history is wrought with civil feuds and expansionist wars that have nearly destroyed itself on numerous occasions. Its hold on the collected galaxies is not a certain one and the Capa-Senatorum is a political viper pit of power hungry planetary motivations.

The union that is the Silverhost is in a constant struggle to maintain the control of the irreplaceable system of ancient arcane gates that connects the planets. These planets have a large militaristic presence on each that protect the gate itself and the cities that have built up around them. Their importance to the realm is paramount, without them there would be no Empire. They allow anyone and anything to freely travel between them, giving the ability to the Silverhost to rapidly transport the entirety of their forces across their domain. Through this system, the risk becomes minimal compared to the chaos and dangers the Astral Sea provides.

The discovery of more of these gates has become the key to expansion for the Empire. Finding new gates enables the cycle of industry to continue unabated. This cycle has existed since the Empire's founding. Well funded galactic exploration guilds, also known as the trade planet hopping, send convoys of ships that sail the gates and beyond in search of traces of more portals of this ancient system. The large industry guilds that finance the exploratory guilds, cooperate with the Capa-Senatorum in exchange for rights to the contracts for the harvestable resources. This symbiotic relationship can be tenous and there are often inter-empire squabbles and alliance shifting with different factions within the realm vying for power.

The discovery of a new branch of L'Astra-Porta is a sure way to become generationally rich and live the rest of your days in fame. For some of the captains and crews of these star sailing ships, that is what drives them, to live in history or at least die trying. This is even more true for those that scout the Outer Planes. Where physics and logic itself start to bend and then bend some more until they break completely.

There are an uncountable number of planes of existence in the Neptaverse. Prime among them are theTrinity Planes in which Gods exert their will or influence over all the other planes. The Reflection Planes of the Mater, those most bound by the natural laws of physics, are the theatre in which the Divine Family and the other Gods source their powers. The planets with discovered gates reside in the plane of the Mater and though there are a number of other gates through the twin dualities of the Reflection Planes, the Silverhost remains solely an empire of the material realm. Factions within the Trinity Planes have forever been entangled in a metaphoric good versus evil battle that remains a balance neither has been able to tilt in their own favour.

And here we are as the balance continues....