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Answer 12 The inhabitants of Fragment can be broadly divided into two groups, Imperials and not-Imperials. The Imperials arrived about 200 years ago, at which point they were an invasion fleet of about 30,000 sailors and marines headed towards delivering what they thought would be the knockout blow of the war. Their godlings were less attentive or powerful than their enemies' godlings, alas, and the entire fleet was sent somewhere "the ocean could never reach". They quickly discovered the portals and came to understand them well enough to make use of them, and started building imperial cities and provinces around portals they controlled, convincing others to join them. Calledron had many previous populations, but given the poor local mineral resources, inconvenient climate and food crops, they mostly lived at a neolithic level and avoided the portals. Some accepted Imperial leadership, but just as many retreated to the portions of the nasal cavity and brainpan far away from a portal and maintain their autonomy. Imperials sometimes wonder about the war that brought them here, but tend to assume their old home was destroyed, and focus on the empire they have built here and now.

Question 25 While most of Fragment consists of chunks of bone the size of large islands ill-suited to any sort of development or habitation, the collarbone and pelvis have enough surface area to accumulate some topsoil and biome. How are these two masses different from Calledron? Are they understood well or mysterious?