Geography
Celmera is a high-albedo lens: silicate ice, layered glass-sheets, and pale regolith that throw sunlight into Loanbula’s upper haze. Its maria are smooth as lake ice; its highlands are pocked with “specular wells” where light ricochets in nested reflections. From orbit, it glitters like a slow beacon—one reason navigators treat it as a timing mark when plotting the Singing Vortexes.
Landmarks
The Thousandfold Plain
A megafacet of contiguous glass where a single beacon multiplies into a maze of ghost images. Used to calibrate and stress-test photonics made in Gleamshore.
Settlements
Gleamspire Annex
Celmera’s primary lab-city, tethered to the surface by three shock pylons. It houses the Kaleidarch, a multi-aperture array that maps light behavior in real time between moon and planet.
History
Celmera’s reflectivity was once a navigational hazard; early ships misread its glare as flare events from the Furnace. Standardized filters and the Kaleidarch turned a nuisance into a powerhouse for optics and comms research.
Residents
Loanbulara optical cadres dominate, with a permanent offworld astronomer corps. Maintenance is heavily automated—little organic life survives here beyond transient frost-mites near heat vents.
