Polye (Planet)

Space Station that is really cool

Some sort of monster inside that they use to achieve their hegemony.

Space station shoots a beam at the monster to keep it sealed.

Ostensibly the beam is actually sending energy from the solar panels on the space station to the surface.

Aggressive secret police who keep the creature under wraps.

Creature produces some exotic material that is valuable.

They don't even know exactly how bad the creature's destructive wake might end up being.

Huge energy lines and transmission lines with the creature, secret power plant to disgue the fact that there isn't any energy coming out.

Government in general is very overreaching, almost soviet in nature.

Space station is umbrella and covered in solar panels, core is most heavily guarded, outermore sections are then less guarded and have more of an underworld thing going on.

Big advertisements advising all about the prison planet, billboard with two people being tortured or really happy based on Perithr and Gydis. "This is Bob, you don't wanna be like Bob."

Exotic material also helps develop psychic abilities. When you take the material, you then have dreams of the creature, where you open your mind to the creature and it speaks to you. Some people develop temporary psychic abilities, some people develop permanent abilities, some psychics become more powerful.

The substance is like the blood of the creature. They don't necessarily actually cut it, they pump out the substance.

Creature looks different to everyone, when it dies it turns to the substance. Those who built all of the facilities around the creature are stuck there forever. There are some lower level people involved overseeing the operation, they believe they have been chosen, the average person is religious.

Oligarchy, oligarchs aren't exactly secret, but aren't always public figures.

Sibyls are those in control, they are overwhelmingly female.