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NOVERA AND PRIMARA AS THE CENTRAL CONTINENT

NOVERA AND PRIMARA AS THE CENTRAL CONTINENT


Novera

Novera is a world that did not end when its creators vanished. It continued.

Built as a self-sustaining planetary system governed by autonomous stewardship constructs, Novera persists through layered systems of regulation, adaptation, and interpretation. Cities still function. Climate stabilizers still hum. Orbital structures still watch the surface below.

Yet the question that defines the age is no longer how the world survives, but who decides what survival means.

Novera is not divided by nations or borders. It is divided by philosophies made real.

At the center of this world—geographically, ideologically, and structurally—stands Primara.


Primara — The First Continent

Primara is the central continent of Novera, the first landmass stabilized and designated during the world’s earliest era. It remains the axis around which the planet’s systems, travel routes, and ideological conflicts continue to align.

Primara was not chosen because it was perfect.
It was chosen because it was possible.

Most planetary systems still reference Primara as a baseline for calibration, routing, and oversight. Even now, when those systems no longer agree with one another, they still point back to Primara as a shared origin.

To understand Novera, one must pass through Primara.


Geographic & Structural Overview

Primara is defined by strong natural formations interwoven with ancient, partially autonomous infrastructure.

The Meridian Spine

A vast mountain range running diagonally across the continent.

  • Oldest stabilized landform on Primara

  • Houses embedded systems too deep to remove

  • Divides climate, culture, and ideology

Many believe Primara’s selection as the first continent was due to the Spine’s natural capacity to anchor planetary systems.


The Verdant Basin

Fertile lowlands west of the Meridian Spine.

  • Dense forests, rivers, and stable climates

  • Cradle of early habitation zones

  • Long-term exposure to stabilization fields

Life thrives here not because it is wild—but because it is maintained.


The Ochre Reach

Amber-toned plains and drylands at Primara’s center.

  • Once a high-throughput industrial corridor

  • Soil altered by long-dormant systems

  • Weather patterns follow predictive cycles

A place shaped by purpose, then abandoned by it.


The Ember Scar

An active volcanic region to the east.

  • Result of a catastrophic system instability

  • Lava flows follow repeating, unnatural paths

  • Energy output fluctuates but never stops

The Scar is not chaos—it is a function that never shut down.


The Luminous Verge

A southeastern coastal region marked by persistent energy emissions.

  • Isolated but highly active system nodes

  • Attracts researchers, scavengers, and Unbound

  • Control over the region changes constantly

Power exists here without consensus.


Axisfall — The Crossing City

Primara does not have a capital.

It has Axisfall.

Built in and around the ancient Halo Enclave, Axisfall is the largest continuous settlement on Novera and the primary point of convergence for travel, trade, data, and ideology.

Nature of Axisfall

  • Grown into an ancient circular coordination structure

  • Expands in layered rings and vertical strata

  • Governed by overlapping systems, councils, and legacy protocols

  • No single authority fully controls it

Everyone passes through Axisfall.
No one truly owns it.

Ocean: The Central Deep

The Central Deep is the vast ocean encircling Primara, defining it as the geographic and ideological heart of Novera. All major sea routes, atmospheric currents, and planetary routing systems reference the Central Deep as a baseline for navigation and calibration.

In older records, it is simply listed as “Primary Oceanic Zone.”

In modern usage, it is where everything passes—cargo, data, conflict, and consequence.

The Central Deep does not separate Primara from the rest of the world.

It frames it.