Planet:Alcanti/Outer Alcanti

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Outer Alcanti is the colloqual term for the shell-world that surrounds and its moons. Constructed millenia ago to answer concerns of growing population on the homeworld and the spread of cities across Alcanti's surface, Outer Alcanti is often the first sight of many travelers and has over the ages of its existence become a symbol of the engineering capability of the.

As well as serving as an expanded landmass of Alcanti itself, Outer Alcanti serves as a protective fortress: Its outer surface is hone to thousands of strategically-placed planetary defense field generators, surface-to-orbit relativistic batteries, laser batteries, ion cannons and fusion warhead silos along with an extension of the guardian swarm; the nanite cloud that defends Alcanti from unauthorised starships entering its orbital proximity.

History
When Outer Alcanti was constructed has long ago been lost to time, with belief that it was constructed over 100,000 years ago. COnstructed ot answer growing concerns of population and urban sprawl expanding into protected wilderness, the construction of such a structure was deemed as a compromise, allowing Imperial citizens to live in te presence of the Imperial throneworld while still being able to afford the ability, as rising demand for homes in places like Minos'Drkaon skyrocketed the price of housing.

As the Imperium evolved, so too did the shell world, with grand cities spreading across the colossal landmasses that lined the inner surface of the structure. Generations came to grow up on the artificial planet, and by the time of the a number of individuals could claim to have been hundredth-generation residents of the shell-world, treating the bizarre sky as something perfectly normal. Due to the expense of maintaining such an impressive structure, the conditions on the inner surface waxed and waned to reflect the economic prosperity of the. In times of wealth, Outer Alcanti was home to city centres of glistening towers, in times of economic desperation or long periods of war however, these megacities would see entire districts fall into disrepair while more rural landscapes would be reclaimed by the imported flora and fauna.

Outer Alcanti served as a first line of defense whenever Acanti was attacked during the and  campaign, its involvement in supprting the defending armadas was vital to the defenders' efforts. With such powerful assaults on the Imperial homeworld, Outer Alcanti has been bolstered by newer weaponry and defensive measures.