Faldris

Faldris exists to turn Tharic strength into organized service. Senior commanders direct local defense, training, supply, company structure, and the deployments owed to Othryn from within a fortress-city fused into a mountain wall. Broad stone streets, recessed spacecraft yards, immense gates, training courts, and reinforced districts spread from the mountain’s base across a defended basin.

High gravity determines every proportion. Buildings are low, massive, and deeply founded because lighter construction fails quickly. Public spaces leave room for controlled movement, and monumental stone is structural necessity rather than display. The atmosphere is breathable but dense; heat and quarry dust collect in the basin, while a fall or careless lift carries consequences visitors from lighter moons routinely underestimate.

Internal command remains Tharic. Faldris decides how companies train, organize, supply themselves, defend the moon, and fulfill a call. Othryn determines the wider military obligation, provides strategic protection, and speaks for the relationship beyond Tharos. The arrangement gives Faldris command without sovereignty: a local crest orders a company, while an Othryni warrant carries it through the Grasp.

The companies keep Menders rather than Kindlers, and a Mender’s judgment on fitness to march overrides pressure from an officer or schedule. That authority expresses Faldris’s preferred form of Dawn practice: restoration joined to readiness, controlled strength, and public duty. The arrival yards follow the same order. Military traffic and essential supply move first; authorized civilian visitors wait, acclimate, and enter a city that does not weaken its routines to make lighter bodies feel at home.