Cadenza

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Cadenza is a planet in the Pearlescent Expanse, although currently (as of year 424 P.S.—Post-Swansong, local year count) it remains locked off from the rest of the galaxy, ever since the Swansong incident of year 0 P.S. It was created as a "designer planet" by the Peacock corporation Ever&After, who withdrew from the planet after its failure to deliver on its promises to its clients in year 1 B.S. (Before Swansong, local year count). During Ever&After's withdrawal, the solar system's local entry to the Singing Deep was destroyed, cutting Cadenza off from the rest of the Expanse.

Outside Cadenza's solar system, the planet's existence is largely unknown. Ever&After, along with the project that eventually resulted in its abandonment, has been wiped from most available records, with all remaining traces being impossible to verify as true facts.

Cadenza is the setting for the Songs for Cadenza campaign.

History
Not long after the Ice Pick Incognito Incident (roughly 3 B.S. in the Cadenzan calendar), the corporation Ever&After gathered carefully picked interested parties to take part in a project in which those who signed up would be given an affordable plot of land on a planet whose ecosystem was to be designed using a supposedly new, cutting-edge piece of "rapid terraforming" technology. Its exact function was left largely a secret, but they promised to be able to design Cadenza's ecosystem to be as perfectly suited for profitable agriculture and beauty as possible. In exchange, Ever&After simply wanted a cut of all exports and a say in local governance.

Their suite of settlers comprised of everything from wealthy lords and ladies and their loyal subjects, to daring science and research institutions and their well-paid employees, to down-on-their luck farmers and labourers with little to lose and money for a few acres and a one-way trip.

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