The single largest ship ever produced by Kasath, the Idari was a generation vessel designed to transport whole generations at a fraction of light speed. When it reached its destination of Akiton and found the world too populated — and too well defended — for colonization, the ship took up orbit past Verces and declared itself a Pact World in its own right. Unlike Absalom Station, the Idari has not become a melting pot, remaining inhabited primarily by kasathas governed by traditional values. The ship's massive reaction drives haven't fired in decades, their power rerouted to the Crucibles, an impressive state-run manufacturing sector. Artificial gravity comes from the vast rotating cylinder called the Drum, whose curving landscape hosts gleaming cities, rolling parks, and glass-walled hydroponic farm-towers under constant daylight rerouted from hull-mounted solar collectors. Through the Drum's center runs the Hub, a zero-gravity transport tube with elevator spurs providing rapid access to any location. The traditional Doyenate governs the ship: a representative council of the most respected members across various fields, where status is never inherited but recognized by the people. Citizens residing on the ship for more than a year must accept and train for an auxiliary crew role. The Sholar Adat, a cathedral-like spire in Brispex stretching nearly to the Hub, acts as a combination cemetery, library, and ancestor temple. Through the process called adat, a hair-thin slice of a deceased's brain is preserved and added to the temple's archives, where the building's technomagical machinery can kindle flashes of the deceased's memories or even contact the departed soul.