Kolaripam was the capital of all twelve Orion Empires and had a history stretching back over 200,000 years. The Sand City was sacked and refounded many times over its 200 millennia, but at its heights it was home to a billion people and spread over a thousand kilometers of roads, homes and factories. When it fell for the last time, the sands of the Oaniru Desert covered most of it, though a few towers of crysteel and diburnite, originally kilometers-high, still stretched above the dunes. Despite its ruined state, many Orions, even those in the Vaj with their own capital of Vajripam, thought of the Sand City of Kolaripam as the true capital.