EPOL-921HC

EPOL-244 is a red dwarf star, 25.1 lightyears from Home in sector A4-Y12-D22. The system contains two major outer planets and a prominent inner ring system named ARY-244, which is itself host to several dwarf planets formed within the debris. The rings are believed to be the remnants of a rocky planet; the circumstances that led to its destruction are still not fully known, but research indicates they formed within the last several tens of millions of years when a planet disintegrated within the star’s roche limit. Solar pressure has since pressed some of the material back outward. The rings have existed for long enough that several small planetoids are coalescing within them, forming small gaps, while the largest gap corresponds to an orbital resonance with the inner major planet.

The ring system ARY-244 contains vast quantities of nanodymium, a neodymium variant able to be manufactured into some of the strongest magnetic materials available. Nanodymium is believed to require a dense and internally hot world in order to form in large quantities, and analysis of the ring’s constituents support this theory. Numerous corporations have claims to particular orbits and rings of the system, which are mined for their nanodymium and other constituents.