Archaeological Sites
Legacy Prime
The complex, known as Legacy Prime, was discovered 71 years ago when it was spotted by a ship in orbit. The complex was relatively remote from any settlements but it was also believed to have been able to hide itself in some way since where it was located were previously thought to have been a dangerous looking mountain range.
After the first sighting of the complex House Omar quickly sent out a team made up of experts from the Technologists as well as the house's own experts. They quickly explored the surface but it took another three years before they finally gained entry into the facility thanks to the insight of Meridon Salkar Machello.
After a few more years Meridon, by now a Master Technologist, managed to interface some large power cells into the complex; these activated the area that had been opened thus far. Large unpowered doors still sealed the initial area off form the rest of the complex but House Omar decided that the landing and storage facilities with living quarters added in were too useful to leave empty and so started moving people to the area and making it a focus of interplanetary trade.
Cautious investigation of the site has been conducted over the past 45 years, the greatest discovery being of a large tribe of humans living towards the depths of the structure. Completely divorced from the outside world but provided with nourishment by the strange machinery within the complex, the 'Primers' culture focuses around the importance of philosophical and spiritual debate.
The Society of Historicals have prevailed upon the Empire not to disturb the Primers' way of life, many hope that having been sealed in isolation for so long the Primers' culture might hold important clues about the Forerunners.
Also in the complex is a complex machine that is believed to be some sort of Legacy communications hub. Unfortunately the device is inactive and Technologists believe that it may have been 'locked' in some way.
The Grand Library
In 588EY, a large earthquake struck the little known farming planet of Sala, in a system ruled by House Machello. A large crater was revealed in the district of Kino when the quake was over, which contained at its base what the farmers there took to be a large piece of legacy technology. The Technologists who arrived to unearth the artefact soon realised that it was significantly larger than it first appeared and called in Explorers with archaeological expertise to excavate the site. It was revealed to be an underground complex of previously unheard of size. The entry was a simple one, the earthquake having broken the entrance’s seal.
Once inside seven great chambers were uncovered, each containing rows of sliding shelves, housing in myriad of crystals, which are known to be necessary for the smooth running of Legacy technology of all kinds. Many shapes and sizes were discovered, including those large enough for use in ships, but the majority seemed to have been damaged and were therefore unusable. This ‘Grand Library’, as it is now known, is still being investigated today, and those which contain written information are being copied onto parchment by hundreds of trainee Scribes and stored in weather proof vaults. It is hoped that translations will be possible once the language of the forerunners can be decoded. The site is now technically still owned by House Machello, but they have relinqished the contents of the library to the Empire at large, as the Empero's Court agreed that such potentially important information should not be in the hands of any single House.
The City in the Ether
Four years ago an explorer vessel operating outside of the normal hyperspace network encountered a city ship floating in hyperspace. The great vessel was not identifiable as any of the Empire's city ships, and projected a radio signal that seemed completely incomprehensible gibberish.
Naturally the Empire would like to recover the ship, but boarding another vessel is currently impossible in hyperspace. A great many Technologists are currently researching methods to either knock the City back into normal space, or to enable a hyperspace boarding action. Despite secrecy surrounding the discovery a number of research vessels from the League of Free States have also been spotted around the ship, and there are concerns that it could become a diplomatic hotspot in the near future.