Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-26535281-20161126180413

The Shrine worlds are spread across the known universe Remanent of the Ala (The angels in Rin myth, also called Seraphs or angelus) they are holy sights to the Rin as a whole mainly because the Ala are the mothers of the Rin in their mythology.

A Shrine world is the holiest sight to all Rin and all citizens of the empire. So holy are these sights that the planets for the most part are left alone and the ruins untouched. The only structure one these worlds is a orbital space port that delivers pilgrims to the surface.

To desecrate a Shrine world is a serious crime one that meets with death. The Empire has known to go to war with nations that dare touch a shrine world and have been known to literally burn away all sings of life on shrine worlds tainted by alien life (Save Ala life of course)

Most ruins are small normally shrines or temples while others are sprawling cities (One such place is Internum which is upon the moon leto of the Rin homeworld) 