Raylicon

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The planet Raylicon was a place where an unknown race moved a group of humans, who became known as the Raylicans and went on to found the Ruby empire in the Saga of the Skolian Empire books by Catherine Asaro.

The Raylicans developed star travel using the discovered remains of three ships found on their new homeworld, having been recently relocated from Earth. They reverse engineered the technology, and as such achieved spaceflight and colonized hundreds of planets. The also discovered the Locks, an ancient technology that allowed them to create the psiberweb, an interstellar network existing outside of normal space and time that transmits messages instantaneously.

However, their shallow understanding of space-faring technology, and possibly corruption led to the empire's collapse, isolating the hundreds of planets in their empire for thousands of years. Eventually, the empire was rebuilt by re-achieving space flight, this time understanding the technology.

In this time, however, the psions (and their genes) which had a strong enough KAB rating to power the psiberweb had been all but lost. As a result, the Rhon project was created to genetically engineer the traits necessary to create the psiberweb. It was this project that led to the divergence of the two great empires in the series, the Eubian Concord and the Skolian empire.