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==Ecology==
[[Image:Tizca.jpg|thumb|right|[[Tizca]], capital city of Prospero before its destruction.{{Fn|12}}]]
In the time of the [[Great Crusade]], the world of Prospero beyond Tizca was a lush, verdant paradise. Its landscape featured vast forests, wide open plains, crystal-clear rivers which flowed through its mountains, and the Prosperine oceans teemed with biological life. Beneath the world's ventral mountain ranges, the psychics of Tizca built massive hydroponic gardens.{{Fn|2d}} The surface of Prospero was abandoned by civilization, however, and was dotted with the remains of a long-dead culture. Empty cities, made up of hundreds of skeletal frames of iron and stone, were overgrown with forests and vines and , while palaces were overrun with wild beasts.{{Fn|2e}}
After the majority of the planet's population was annihilated by the [[psychneuein]], the world became unsafe for life beyond the confines of the psychically-protected Tizca. Thus, the world outside Tizca's walls became known as '''The Desolation of Prospero.'''{{Fn|2a}}{{Fn|2e}} Tizca's natural environment was warm, nestled amongst mountains and an ocean bay, and featured a river running through Old Tizca, suggesting a Mediterranean climate. Techno-psychic arrays built into the mountains of Tizca were used to reliably predict and control the weather's climate.{{Fn|2f}} Beneath the Tizca's ventral mountain ranges, the psychics of Tizca built massive hydroponic gardens.{{Fn|2d}}
The psychneuein, an indigenous species on Prospero, was a major threat to the early settlers of Prospero. The [[Thousand Sons]] theorized that, thousands of years ago, a warp-event triggered an explosion of uncontrolled psychic potential within Prospero's population, which in turn drove the pscyheneuein into a feeding frenzy, ultimately destroying almost all sentient life on Prospero. The only survivors fled to, and fortified, Tizca, the last outpost of the planet's civilization. Tizca and its citizens continued to thrive, thanks to their ability to harness [[telekinesis]] shields that kept the psychneuein at bay.{{Fn|2d}}
