Fiction:Apalos Biosphere Preserves

The Apalos Biosphere Preserves are a collection of celestial bodies and space habitats, dedicated to preserving the universe's biodiversity, located in many places around the First Gigaquadrant.

History
The predecessor of the Preserves was the 's system of nature reserves in the. These were mostly for the benefit of "truly alien" life, although particularly interesting godspawn (suhrsegh) species were given worlds in the galaxy's Imperial Sector. Although these were all destroyed in the Annihilation, the Empire also maintained databases of genetic, ontogenetic and ethological information, which survived. Along with lessons learned by the Empire, these were then used by to create a new, larger series of preserves, spread across the Gigaquadrant to render the collection as a whole resistant to galaxy-devastating events.

Over the following decades, developing and populating these reserves became the most resource-consuming activity conducted by Apalos as, along with fully documenting all truly alien life in the remaining universe, they also expanded their dedication to godspawn life with the intent of preserving all naturally-occuring non-sapient bioterhai. This required a large campaign of data, and often sample, collection, sometimes without the permission of local authorities. It is often not known when most individual planets were visited, but collections in the may have begun immediately after the Annihilation in 2782, in the  prior to Apalos's contribution to the start of the  in 2784, and efforts in the  were greatly increased after the outbreak of the Dominatus War in 2792.