Gushaz

A gushaz was a structure that was used by the Aaris—the native sentient species of the planet Aaris III—as a place of reverence. One gushaz was located in the City of Kastays several thousand years before the Galactic Civil War, and was briefly the home of the Plaque of Victory. The Plaque—a sentient, inanimate lifeform that manipulated other beings into turning on one another by heightening their paranoia and violent tendencies—was the cause of the civil war that led to the downfall of the Aaris civilization. In an effort to defeat the Plaque's influence, it was removed from the gushaz by one of the factions involved in the fighting and taken to a tower above the city, in the hope that its influence would not affect the population from a great height, although the plan ultimately failed.

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