Overview
A charted dead-end under a dim, orange K-type star — one known hyperspace path in and out, strategically worthless, which is exactly why MacMillian clings to it and the Republic never looks. Everything here is amber and shadow. The system is a dead-end corridor with a single known gate — everyone’s only door in and out. Thides orbits the Sargasso Void, the massive, uncharted gravitational anomaly that makes the system a charted dead end: gravity runs strange inside it and no one has ever mapped a way through.
The whole system is effectively owned by the MacMillian Mining and Extraction Corporation, which exists to exploit every resource it can find here. MacMillian runs the system’s primary processing, shipping, and management hub at Thides Station, but works the actual sites through subcontractors rather than its own crews. Its grip holds through a single lever: MacMillian controls all travel in and out of the system — nothing moves through the known gate without its say-so.
System Bodies
Canonical roster from the system map (inner → outer):
- Thides — the dim amber star.
- Thides I — tidally-locked, mined-out planet; extreme temperatures, worked to near collapse.
- Thides II — toxic, corrosive atmosphere; brutal, equipment-eating, expendable labor.
- Thides III — Earth-like world; the system’s living biosphere (the EM-hazard world).
- Thidian Asteroid Belt — debris field between the inner worlds and the gas giant.
- Thides IV — gas giant with moons; the actively-mined “present,” the station’s neighborhood.
- Thides V — icy planet with a trace atmosphere; the far dark.
- Thides VI — hot planet under high radiation.
- Thidian Orbital Station — i.e. Thides Station, MacMillian’s hub.
Points of Interest
- Tidally-locked mine-world — extreme temperatures, mined to near collapse; the visible past.
- Acid-atmosphere world — brutal, equipment-eating; expendable labor, lethal “accidents.”
- EM-biosphere hazard world ⚑ — flora/fauna home in on electromagnetic emissions; you work EM-silent or die.
- Gas giant + moons — the system’s living present, actively mined; the station’s neighborhood.
- Neptunian world + three icy worlds — the far dark; “out of bounds”; where the freighters run.
Appearances
mobRPG (canon import)
A dead end system with one jump route charted in/out of the system. It is primarily owned by the MacMillian Mining and Extraction Corporation for purposes of exploiting any and all resources found in the system. The MacMillian operates the primary processing, shipping, and management station in the system. All current exploiting operations are managed by subcontractors to MacMillian. MacMillian maintains control by managing travel to/from the system.
Relationships
- Located at FTL and Hyperspace — Its dead-end geography — one charted gate in and out — is governed by the FTL rules.