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On 24 May 2319*, the quincentennial of the birth Immortal Empress, the exceedingly clever and politic Pope Frances III? (born Javier Del Monte of El Molar, Spain) proposed the building of a "heavenly city of angels" upon the Moon. That heavenly orb had remained uninhabited -- and uninhabitable -- after the unspeakable terror of the Macropterous Malacoids of the Moon? three centuries earlier, and the Pope proposed that it would be most fitting to create an ediface that would be visible to all the Earth, and would represent the triumph of Light and Good over the Excrucian uncreators. That it would stand in competition to the ever-burgeoning Towers of Callisto need not be mentioned.

The tremendous labor of building of the etherial city of Angeles began upon the consent of Victoria (and the grudging assent of the Council; indeed, it was a sign of the extent to which the Council was driven in some small part by Victoria's iron will that they agreed to such a thing). The city was cunningly constructed based on profound architectural, physical, and metaphysical extrapolations from Einstein's Theory of General Absolutivity. The splendid creation of a City of Virtues, to be governed by the Seven Anchors? of Victoria Regina (each, of course, representing one of the Seven Cardinal Virtues(approve sites)), was a pinnacle triumph of human achievement, a marvel marking the zenith of the Lost 500 Years. While its moral strength was its most noteworthy, its more mundane fittings, be it the great Mynarwood? beams that supported its walls, or the delicate memetic encoding? crystals that captured the very soul-essence of the race that built such a wonder, made for a spectacle that is not likely to be rivalled should humanity last for ten time five hundred years in this new, bold history.

Indeed, some speculate whether it was the grandness of that very triumph, a zestful Babel-like hubris by humanity and terrestrial Noble and Imperator alike, that might have led to the end of that fabulous era. Heaven, one suspects, was unamused, and may have acted subtly against it (though the angels decline to comment on this past occurance). And certainly the absence of the Seven Anchors?, in particular Trey Parker and Mary Roberts? (in her later incarnation) made the ultimate plot against the Empress all the more likely to succeed.

Before the Rollback, the fabulous cathedral city of Angeles had spread out across the lunar orb like a great star in the southern end of the appropriately-named Sea of Clouds, a crystalline entity standing to the glory of creation and the glory of humanity and its Empress. The Great Rollback (and a stray, lobbed asteroid, either beforehand or after) rendered the city of Angeles but a memory, a starry scar across the Moon's face, and a latent racial memory among humans of hidden civilizations sequestered within their frigid neighbor's silent orb.

SEE ALSO: General Absolutivity, Mary Roberts?, Memetic Encoding?

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This is a L entry in the Lexicon of the Lost 500 Years.