Template:Facility-Current The Fountain Palace is the primary Royal Hapan Palace, located in the center of Chume'Dan on Hapes Prime. It was the Royal Residence from 2020 to 3946 and again from 4034 to present day. It was used as the Royal Palace of the Sword Confederacy from 3936 to 3996 during the Hapan Civil War. Following the end of the war, the palace compound was so badly damaged from multiple bombardments and assaults it had sustained that it took decades to finally restore it to its former glory. The newly renovated palace was unveiled and presented to King James on his birthday in 4034.
History
Construction
The Fountain Palace was constructed at the dawn of the Second Antiquity Era when the Hapes Consortium and especially Hapes Prime enjoyed an influx in wealth and authority following its successful expansion and settlement of more systems of the Hapes Cluster in the Second Expansion Era which ended some years earlier. Queen-Mother Dal'kuran I, the first in a dynasty that would rule for 800 years, celebrated this newfound wealth be ordering the construction of a new Royal residence in the center of Ta'a Chume'Dan as a symbol of the power and unlimited resources of the Hapan crown. This era was also marked as further expansion and solidifying of Hapan culture and the new Royal Hapan Palace became the crowning achievement of her rule.
Dahalia Qeen was the chief architect of the project and was given free reins to make the palace and its surrounding compound as majestic as possible. The Olanji Mining Guild provided the bulk of the raw materials required for the construction and architects, landscape architects and construction workers kept at the project for close to ten years before its final unveiling in 2020.
Wonder of the Consortium
The Fountain Palace would serve as the primary Royal residence for the rest of the Age of Queen-Mothers, some 1900 years. It was considered one of the Wonders of the Hapes Consortium, the very symbol of Hapan culture and the power of the Hapan throne. Aside from serving as a home to the Royal Family, its handmaidens, staff and Royal Guard, parts of the compound were also devoted to government business. The Queen-Mother would continue to meet with the Hapan nobility and government officials until Lorell Hall was completed in 2449.
