Ra Ciela

Ra Ciela ラシエーラ (rashieera) is the name of the planet that serves as the setting for Ciel nosurge: Ushinawareta Hoshi e Sasagu Uta, and it also has a great importance on the events that unfold throughout the Surge Concerto series.

It used to be a green and lush planet many years ago, but during the age in which Ciel nosurge takes place, Ra Ciela is coming to its end: its sun, Bezel, has turned into a red giant which will end up swallowing it if nothing is done. This is why the factions Tenmon and Chimon have devised their own plans to save either the people or the entire planet; and why they are bettingg so much on the current Imperial Succession Ceremony and on their respective Empress candidates: Ionasal.kkll.Preciel and Kanoyeel.kkll.Preciel.

However, in the end this was all for naught, as while the plan chosen at the end was Tenmon's plan of migrating to other planet, during the ceremony in which the new Empress would sing the song for converting Ra Ciela into energy and use it to teleport herself and all humanity to another planet, something happened that caused the energy gotten from Ra Ciela to be wasted and the planet itself to break apart, which forced the people to flee within a spaceship.

By the time the events of Ar nosurge: Ode to an Unborn Star take place, nothing remains of either Bezel or Ra Ciela, except for a large expanse of energy where the core of the planet used to be long ago. The Sphilial Rings and the Singing Hill space station that were constructed around it for the migration project still continue orbiting around the former core even now.

Antiquity
Long before the humans came to this planet, it used to be known by the name Sharanohiar and it was inhabited mostly by the Genoms. While the planet was in crisis five times, the Genoms connected their feelings with those of the Wills that created their planet and managed to save it, which also brought growth to their souls and made them closer to the Wills.

However, all this changed when the humans suddenly appeared on Sharanohiar 5000 years priors to the events of Ciel nosurge, running away from their previous dying planet. It was then that the Genoms and the Wills of Sharanohiar accepted them as new members of their family, despite the constant quarrels between Genoms and humans. The humans at some point then renamed the planet as Ra Ciela, and established the Empress lineage that continued for as long as the planet continued existing.

However, the method they used to arrive to this planet, which consisted on forcefully bringing the soul of a girl from another dimension to this world and then using her powers to send them to Ra Ciela destroyed the balance of the universe, and since the sun of this planet, Bezel, was the closest object to that foreign soul, it was the recipient of the distorted waves this caused, turning Bezel into a red giant and starting the recurrent problem of the Wave Bursts.

Era of the Last Empress
Around ten years prior to the events of Ciel nosurge, the two factions that fought over the hegemony of Ra Ciela noticed the problem of the sun enlarging couldn't be left unchecked anymore due to the frequency and intensity of the Wave Bursts increasing with every passing day, so they both designed two plans to solve the situation: Chimon developed the Save Bezel Project, which consisted on uniting the feelings of all humans and Genoms in Ra Ciela in order to craft a Song Magic that would stabilize Bezel; while Tenmon developed the Grand Phoenix Project, which consisted of transforming Ra Ciela into energy and use it to teleport to another inhabitable planet, much like their ancestors did to arrive to Ra Ciela. Very much like both factions, the population of Ra Ciela was split on two sides, as Save Bezel seemed to impossible to pull off, while Grand Phoenix would require to sacrifice Ra Ciela and all life on it, as the only creatures that were supposed to be saved through it were the humans themselves.

It was under these tense circumstances that both factions began carrying out tremendously questionable actions: Chimon grabbed 229 orphaned girls, shipped them to the Genomirai Research Institute and turned them into test subjects that were injected with the gRNA Virus α in order to create a being that would be able to Harmonize with any Genom regardless of their power. Of them, only the final girl Dudu Noechium (229) survived, while the others all died due to not being able to adapt to the virus.

This sole survivor was later on renamed as Kanoyeel.Cielsh.o.Domneq.Genometrica and given the highest political position within the faction: the Chimon Archbishop, which also made her elegible to be the Princess for Chimon, robbing Zillillium Rimonite from both seats. However, one of the experiments with Kanoyeel ended in disaster: when she was made to attempt synchronizing with the Cielnotron Server through a Cielnosurge Tube, the REON-OS used the chance to spread a virus that caused over 60% of the laboratory staff to fall into a coma. This incident was dubbed the Genomirai Pandemic, and it was what caused the Genomirai Research Institute to close up and the survivors of its research team to disband.

As for Tenmon, its leader Revelt Flandreson decided that only one of his two daughters, Renall was worthy of being his successor, so while his second daughter, Ionasal was treated like a princess, and lived a luxurious and abundant life for her first fifteen years of life, all that came to an end the next year when she was forced to undergo a Territory Exchange treatment with the soul of a girl called Nei Yuki that was brought from another dimension. Therefore, Nei was forced into Ionasal's body and kept locked up into a cell for a year in fear that she could trigger a disaster similar to the Genomirai Pandemic, while Ionasal's original soul was thrown away as unwanted trash. Ionasal would have died if she was kept like that, but fortunately for her, a researcher friend of her called Fractel felt terribly about this and managed to put her soul into the body of a prototype Sharl, though this ended costing Fractel her life when she was caught by PLASMA soldiers and got shot to death.

(more to come later...)