Overview

A banded gas giant with a large, brilliant ring system — not a place anyone lives, but the reason half of Kestrel's current troubles exist. One of Kestrel III's moons hides a sealed Mandate-era installation, and the pretech cache inside it is the true source of the military-grade weapons and spike drive components flooding into the Kestrel II civil war.

World Stats

Geography & Environment

• A banded gas giant with a prominent, richly-colored ring system, easily visible from Kestrel II on a clear night
• A cluster of small moons orbit within and beyond the rings — mostly airless rock, unremarkable except for one
• No stable orbital infrastructure; the rings make close approach hazardous without a skilled pilot

Settlements

• None. No permanent population, no registered claims — which is exactly why it's gone unnoticed this long

Factions & Notable NPCs

• Red Veil Cartel — quietly extracting weapons and spike drive components from the vault, disguising the runs as Shattered Belt mining traffic
• Mandate Remnant Surveyors — want the site studied and recovered intact before it's stripped or weaponized further

Trade & Economy

• No legitimate trade. All economic activity here is the Red Veil Cartel's black-market extraction operation

Points of Interest

• A sealed Mandate-era vault on one of the moons, the source of the pretech cache — exact moon and access route known only to Captain Vashti Kael and a handful of her crew