Outside of the influence of the major powers of the galaxy, Zentrum is an arid world with significant mineral deposits, although its major trade is information. In the distant past, a listening post was established; a massive tachyon antenna array, which now forms the heart of Whisper Town. Bitsifters harvest stray broadcasts, and bandwidth brokers arrange for transmission and processing of information across known space, all under the direction of House Delphyn. The settlement is full of whisper dens and datasmith’s lairs where knowledge can be bought and sold, and this network hub makes Whisper Town an ideal place to trade physical wares too, at the Matter Market. There are numerous dealers and collectors in Whisper Town, the most notable being Mugler, said to have amassed a horde of rare and valuable artefacts from a thousand worlds.

As well as smugglers and criminal cartels, and the mining clans who control industrial settlements across Zentrum, several nefarious alliances also make the planet their home. The group known as Volatile Memory are machine supremacists, who run weapons and ammunition through the Matter Market, and use the whisper dens to plot terrorist attacks against organic life throughout the galaxy. Stranger still is the militant cult of the Mordax who operate from the massive, yet half-finished tower known as the Starspike, jutting from the ruins of Solum. Some say it is the radiation that keeps scavengers away from that city, others say it is something unnatural summoned by the Mordax…