| abstract | - The Skull Queen's fortress was a massive ten-story compound carved from the black volcanic rock of Mount Octan. During a standard Nallastian night, the phenomenon known as planet light (reflected light from the planet Fondor, as it reflected its system's sun, rising over the jungle) bathed the satellite-mountain and the staggered rows of fortress battlements and ancient megaliths in a blueish glow. Three massive megaliths, each of which were eight meters tall, stood in triangular formation in the midst of a field guarded by 50 Nallastian warriors clad in reptilian skins and animal-bone armor, bearing primitive energy-projectile launchers (although a few held contemporary blaster weapons): the plot of land between the stones was littered with bones, both human and alien. The stone triangulation—called the Trinity Stones—was the basis for the energy field (a lunar gravity vortex) that served as the inescapable deathbed for offenders of Nallastian law: they had to wait but 90 standard minutes to be crushed by the stones, which were magnetically drawn to one another. Once the megaliths met, they repelled back to their original positions.
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