Picard's Belt (2440 Gateway C000510-A)
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Picard's Belt (2440 Gateway C000510-A):
A vast cloud of asteroids circles this F6 star in numbers so great the
star itself seems lost in a thick, smokey haze. Several hundred asteroid
colonies have been established in the outer fringes of the system,
which sustains itself by mining various ores for export, primarily to the
Viyard Concourse.
Of particular interest are the ruins, artifacts, and anomalies
discovered on numerous planetoids within the belt. None can be identified,
and the intelligence behind them is unknown. Examples include a featureless
20-cm sphere of unknown alloy and purpose, pyramidal
buildings with no accessible entrances, and a 50-km asteroid which has
been cored by some process which left only a ring of nickle iron with mirror-polished
inner walls. It has been suggested that the artifacts are the product of
an alien civilization inhabiting asteroids deeper within the Belt, but
the theory remains unproven and speculative. -gat
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