Paleph

Paleph is the capital system of The Council of Nimonea￼￼. It is located at the direct centre of Nimonean territory and is a Hub of cultural, technological and artistic advancement. The disparity between settlements on Paleph and those on the outskirts of Nimonean territory is vast, it is logistically difficult for there to be strong communication and transportation of resources from Paleph to the outer colonies and so there is a severe divide in the quality of life on either end of the scale, with some estimates placing some of the worse affected colonies 100 to 150 years in the past in terms of technology alone. Visitors to Paleph from said outer colonies have often found the jump extremely jarring. The first human to come to Paleph wrote of her experiences in a book titled "Across As-Sirāt" the following is an extract: "... regardless, call it what you will. my ancestors would have praised and heralded the time I would finally enter Jannah, others would know it as Olam Haba, Heaven, Elysium, Tian. Whatever form it takes, whatever platonic ideal we hold in our subconscious, [Paleph] is thus. To walk the paths and to interact with its people is to look upon the face of god and his angels, a land of light and unexplainable miraculous events that to it's people are not worth noticing, they truly are beyond us in a way that I feel is deserving of reverence but also fear, we could be totally at their mercy should they wish us to be." - Éléonore Seif, Across As-Sirāt, page 457