Izilere

City on Sorpen annihilated by fusion weapons.

Izilere first appears in 'Consider Phlebas' as the site of the city on Sorpen, a world caught in the brutal crossfire of the Idiran-Culture War. The planet's most significant development—or rather, destruction—comes when its city is utterly annihilated by fusion weapons, symbolizing the war's indiscriminate devastation. Across the series, Izilere remains a haunting footnote, emblematic of the countless worlds erased in the conflict, with no further evolution or recovery depicted in subsequent books.