Eskalo

Overview
Eskalo was an ecumenopolis located in the Kiel System. It was the second foreign planet to be colonized by the Empire of Bulvaron shortly following their discovery of space travel. The world was covered in inhospitable black rocky plains and gorges spewing with lava. Despite the hot surface of the planet, aquifers were abundant, and were connected to geysers on the surface. The human colonizers made use of the enormous quanities of steam emitting from the surface of Eskalo, and built cities on stilts atop the molten world. As time went on, especially after the invention of Creeps, the world became so densely urbanized that the surface isn't visible from space, and there are layers of buildings cascading towards the sky across the entire surface.

The War
During The War, the majority of Eskalo was purchased by the Guild, and gracefully transitioned to be the planet's official government, as the population grew too large to be inherited by the Confederacy, and its culture too wildly different from that of ID to be ruled by Krel. The world quickly became a hyper-capitalist, libertarian haven, and a neutral force for economic expansion, scientific discovery, and immense ingenuity.

Later Years
After the fall of ID, The Guild began to rewrite its laws, and slowly but surely, force itself onto vulnerable independant worlds across the galaxy.