Magic.
The world is held together by
magic. From the smallest part of the smallest atom to the multiverse as a whole, everything
believes everything should exist, and so everything does. Without
magic, without
belief, nothing would be. And
Poneren is the place where this is most obvious, the place where
belief most easily connects and changes things.
Humanity came to
Poneren from the stars. Trapped on a distant world, survival was difficult,
science and
technology insufficient to sustain them on a world so completely infused with
magic.
Without
science and the structure it enforced however,
magic would run unchecked and again humanity would be in danger. The history of
Poneren is a story of finding a balance between
science and
magic, between
knowledge and belief.