Welcome to Ruin-53
The Vassal World of Ruin-53 (which, naturally, is known under many different local names), is one of the ninety-seven Vassal Worlds designated as "Ruins" by the Dominion of Mankind. Like the remaining ninety-six worlds of that category it was thoroughly decimated during the Great Multiversal War, to the point where making even a small part of it habitable took decades of expansive terraforming.
Mankind during its Golden Age has decided to invest necessary ammount of money in majority of these worlds, however it was still a gruelling work that almost never reached its conclusion. Ruin-53 is a good example of the typical results of such projects - while 10% of it allow posthumans to live comfortably, the remaining 90% are the Burned Lands - places that aren't and probably never will be habitable. Especially since all attempts to continue terraforming of ruinworlds have been halted centuries ago.
Today, the Burned Lands are merely kept at bay through the Circle of Life, a network of [high archotek terraforming devices, most of them resembling metallic towers in the middle of the seas surrounding the habitable continents.,
Today, like all other Vassal Worlds it is a world that's facing the turbulent times. As the Dominion of Mankind's presence vanished from the world, local particularisms (and influence of the hostile throneworlders) grow stronger. The future of Ruin-53 is uncertain at best.
Geography
The habitable part of the world used to be a pangea-like supercontinent, approximately equalling half of the Old Earth's total surface (while being one of fourteen continents of the Ruin-53). Relatively recently - in terms of a geology - it has split into three smaller continents, divided by the Inner Sea. There are also numerous isles of varied size scattered around, all of that located on Ruin-53s northern hemisphere.
The remaining 90% of the Ruin-53 (composed of thirteen more continents of various size) has been decimated during the Great Multiversal War, to the point where there are nothing more than irradiated wastelands full of berserked nanomachine swarms, malignant magicks and spatial distortions - there are still useful goods to be found there (especially in ruins of the servitor fortresses), however it's still a place that very few return from.
The war has messed up the seas and weather patterns too, forcing the Dominion of Mankind to establish a network of magic towers surrounding the reclaimed part of Ruin-53 (the Circle of Life), with a potent magic shields between them establishing what's pretty much a wall around 10% of the world. This stops winds from carrying radiation clouds and nanomachines over the reclaimed continents.
History
Mankind reclaimed Ruin-53 during its Vassal World campaign - the last battle occured in 2039, when the armies of Mankind destroyed the largest servitor holdout in this world by detonating a handful of nuclear weapons alongside a fault line (which resulted in said holdout mostly sinking underwater, creating the region known as the Murdered Coast). With Mankind's grip over the world secured, it was used as a useful staging ground for the invasion upon the Throne Worlds. It was conveniently out of the prying eyes of whatever remained of the Mankind's civilians.
This came to bite the world in the ass when the Dark Lords decided to organize a diversionary assault on this world (and a handful similar ones) during the Mankind invasion on the Throne Worlds. The world was swiftly overwhelmed with numerous servitors, and local installations of the United Nations were destroyed. The damages to the world were large, but what really created the Burned Lands was the human counteroffensive which have succeeded in dislodging the heavily entrenched servitors, at the cost of rendering the world's surface almost entirely uninhabitable.
The Ruin-53 eventually rose from the ashes with some limited terraforming operation, that has reclaimed three continents (formerly one), and allowed for its resettlement. Then came the Blackout which ended the human technology.
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