User blog comment:AtomicScientist/Final Battle:Atom's Idea's/@comment-1392407-20130813021359/@comment-1392407-20130813031135

According to Jeyo, the fortress was built by Korrigahnn. Likewise, there is no shard (a shard requires that there be a whole, as a shard is a fragment). There is the core.

This game is sci-fi. That said, it's not sci-fi like Star Trek or the Foundation series. It's more like Discworld sci-fi.