Gendar (planet)

Gendar was the planet inhabited by the species of the same name. It was considered "the seventeenth most interesting archaeological site in the universe" because the billion-year-old Gendar civilisation existed in flagrant contradiction to the fact that scientifically, no humanoid species should have been able to evolve on such a barren desert-planet. In fact, the Gendar were created by Auteur, Gideon and Virtuoso as part of a "long con" during the war.

Creation of the Gendar species
The planet was "infamous" for its "fatal environment", having always always "had a rough time in the universe". (PROSE: Ring Theory) In an era seemingly predating the fall of the Vo'lach (PROSE: The Gendar Conspiracy) in 10,000,000 BC, (PROSE: Ghost Devices) Auteur came to Gendar with Gideon and the exiled Firmament Virtuoso. Together, they established Gendar society as a "billion year con-job", creating a safe hideaway where Auteur and Gideonw ere worshipped as gods and could scheme in peace, (PROSE: The Gendar Conspiracy) and also allowing them to seed artificial prophecies in ancient history to be found in the future and contribute to Auteur's masterplan to overwrite the war. (PROSE: White Canvas)

Under their gods' guidance, the Gendar built a metropolis and the Statue of the Goddess. Auteur and Gideon left, but Virtuoso remained among the Gendar as the governor of Gendar's planetary government, the Historic Preservation Society. Gendar's early history would be obscured, recorded only in fossils and documents hidden in the Statue of the Goddess. (PROSE: The Gendar Conspiracy)

Ups and downs
As time passed, several major cities other than the metropolis were built on Gendar. (PROSE: White Canvas) The wider universe became aware of Gendar and its life, and the planet came to be swarming with archaeologists, anthropologist, and other scientists. Three major schools of thought emerged: that Gendar life had a normal explanation, that the whole planet wasn't real, and that aliens were to blame. 14 universities banned discussion on the planet, and 28 denied its existence altogether. The Gendar Is Fake Trust asserted Gendar was an interactive hologram. (PROSE: The Gendar Conspiracy)

Some time before the events that led to the creation of the Cwejen, Gendar faced an existential threat. The Superiors offered the then-current host of the Gestalt, who happened to be a Gendar, a deal: they would nudge the timeline to save her planet, in exchange for them helping her to create a living memetic weapon by operating on a unique Cwej that had fallen back in time. After some hesitation, the Gestalt agreed to the deal, and Gendar and its people were saved. (PROSE: Ring Theory)

During the War
Gendar was at one point invaded by "that empire of cyborg thingies". This crisis pulled Virtuoso out of one of her periodic retirements, emerging once again as leader of the Historic Preservation Society. A short time later, (PROSE: The Gendar Conspiracy) as Auteur's plan came to fruition within the war, members of the Original Mammoths came to Gendar's Statue of the Goddess and discovered the false prophecy prophecy saying they were threatened by the 10,000 Dawns. (PROSE: White Canvas)

Shortly afterwards, Littlejohn and the Arbiter of Knives came to Gendar investigating a trail of murders leading from Vo'lach Prime and discovered together the true origin of Gendar life. They allowed Virtuoso to continue governing the planet. (PROSE: The Gendar Conspiracy) Littlejohn remained to investigate the inside of the Statue of the Goddess. Fleeing the Mammoths' attack on the Dawns, Graelyn Scythes, Archimedes Von Ahnerabe, and Aesculapius met with Littlejohn and Aesc helped translate a prophecy concerning the Hollow Childe. (PROSE: White Canvas)

V-Time
One V-Time surge that was propagating backwards through time from the far future "intersected with Gendar" at some point "prior" to reaching 2020 Earth. This fact was known to P.R.O.B.E.. (PROSE: The Blue Scream of Death)

Post-War universe
Maxie Masters fled Gendar in stressful circumstances and came to live on Earth in the post-War universe. (PROSE: She Came From Another World!, etc.)