Twilitespace: Sherall's Comet

And what the heck?  Here's the Twilitespace Elvish Fleet's main
headquarters, Sherall's Comet.

Sherall's Comet
	This ancient comet has been seen for ages in the skies of
Twilitespace.  It makes a fifty year swing about star system, slowly
making it's orbit about the sun.  During the time that it is closest to
the sun, it is extremely bright, easily seen from anywhere in the inner
system.  It's appearance in the skies of Ethwold is considered a sign of
good luck and heralds a year of good luck.  Few have actually explored
the Comet.  Those that have report a breathable atmosphere and a surface
haunted by such cold loving monsters as polar worms, white worms, and
even ice mephits.
	Sherall's Comet is not a natural phoneme.  It is a created device, a
great city in space.  The comet itself is a shell of ice and gases,
riddled with caverns.  Those caverns can go on for miles, and end in
crafted corridors.  Those corridors, in turn, lead to the core, a
hollowed chamber well over two miles in diameter.  Lying on the "gravity
plane" of the comet is a disk-shaped city, connected to the comet by
eight great columns of ice, radiating out from the city like spokes on a
wheel.  The buildings of the city are crafted of crystal and living
plants.
	This is Hidden Haven, the secret base of the Elvish Imperial Fleet.  It
is here that hundreds of crewmen and officers of the Fleet keep their
families safely hidden.  Hidden Haven also doubles as the sphere
headquarters for the fleet, and at least a third of the Twilitespace
Defensive Fleet is here at all times.  Many of the citizens keep busy by
repairing and maintaining the ships of the Fleet, as well as improving
the city.  Typically, the wives, husbands, and juvenile children of
crewmen and officers who are not officially part of the Fleet easily
find high paying jobs that are supportive of that organization.  Hidden
Haven boasts an expansive garden, excellent dry docks, a large library,
and other public works.  Most of the city is a parkland, with the
buildings crafted into the branches and the hollows of the largest
trees.  Magic is used to maintain the plants and animals of the city.
	The population of Hidden Haven is small, only about twelve hundred
beings, not counting fleet personal.  As the place is a military base,
there are few facilities to handle trading, travelers, or any other
"civilian" trappings.  The facilities to handle the military, however,
are extensive and always well maintained.  They include a hospital, a
temple, five dry docks, barracks, a market, docks, and dozens of light
to medium weapon emplacements.

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Night Druid