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This unusual system features a 40 stellar-mass black hole with a T, L and M class in orbit. Each orbiting star has planets in orbit that are candidates for terraforming. The L class has a terraforming candidate water world and the M class has an Earth-like world.

An astonishing abnormality, this ringed earth-like world orbits a black hole. The only sources of light and heat are a neutron star found 36k light-seconds distant and a G-class star over 100k light-seconds away. Three additional water worlds can also be found orbiting the G-class star, including one with a ring!

The Impossible is an Earth Like World 1.8 times the size of our own. The planet itself orbits a Black Hole and a White Dwarf only 23 Ls away. The Black Hole and White Dwarf are only 4Ls apart. The probability of this occurring is incredibly low and would be considered a very rare find in the galaxy.

At nearly 17,000 LY from Sol, this distant nebula glows with blue and gold. It sits a relatively close 400 LY from the meridian, making a very simple excursion on a path from Sol to Sagittarius

Medium sized pink and red nebula situated on the far edge of the Norma Expanse.

This system contains some of the Guardian ruins discovered within the Hollow Veil nebula in the Blaa Hypai sector. The system itself contains three ancient sites, all of them located on the same orbital body (A5)

Situated on the 'southern' edge of the Norma Expanse, this medium sized red and pink nebula has a distinct 'hollow' region several LYs across embedded within it where the gas and dust thin out to produce this unique feature. When approaching from a certain orientation, explorers have also reported that the nebula resembles an ancient Earth painting by the artist Edvard Munch called 'Skrik' - 'The Scream', and thus the nebula is often referred to as The Screaming Nebula ('Skrik' meaning Scream in the artists native Norwegian language).

Planet 2: This is a huge landable icy world, at 32.76 earth masses. It has a beautiful ring and is only 38 light-seconds away from the parent F star. This translates to a paradoxically high surface temperature for an icy body at 1029 K. The high temperature plus the gravity of 2.8G combine for an interesting challenge to commanders wanting to explore it surface features.

V1033 Scorpii is a binary system composed of a F-type star, and black hole GRO J1655-40. This black hole is a so-called microquasar: A black hole sharing characteristics of black hole quasars at the center of galaxies. Microquasars pull matter from the companion star which forms an accretion disk around the black hole. This accretion disk may become so hot, due to friction, that it begins to emit X-rays. The disk also projects narrow streams or "jets" of subatomic particles at near-light speed, generating a strong radio wave emission. GRO J1655-40 was first studied in detail by the Chandra X-Ray Telescope in 2005. Several smaller bodies exist in the system. In particular, the moon of gas giant AB 1 has a high orbital inclination and should provide excellent views of the gas giant and rings when at the right time in the moon's 3.4 day orbit. The black hole can provide unique lensing effects on nearby nebula NGC 6357.

Small blue planetary nebula situated within the central Sagittarius Arm.

Although originally discovered by John Hershel in June 1834, this diffuse planetary nebula did not achieve popular interest until more powerful observation technology in the 20th Century were able to discern its distinctive ring shape. Fascinated by its structure, astronomers in that era frequently referred to NGC 6337 as "the Cheerio Nebula" in honor of what archivists believe was a ring-shaped breakfast food that was popular in North America. The nebula is a binary system with a Wolf-Rayet main star that it is orbited by five ringed, helium rich gas giants and a Class A star that is orbited by another ringed helium giant and two Class Y dwarfs.

Morgan's Rock is an asteroid base controlled by the Interstellar Mining Corporation, with 15,000 staff on site. The base is located inside the small NGC 6188 nebula. All services are available except for ship outfitting and a shipyard. The identity of 'Morgan' remains clouded in mystery.

A visually spectacular earthlike world with a double ring system. From certain angles and distances, the inner rings appear to be orbiting so fast that it is visible to the naked eye.

One of the Colonia Connection Highway outposts, constructed in October 3302. The depot is named after old Earth explorer Edmund Hillary. On 29 May 1953, Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest. Fittingly this depot is located at the base of a large mountain.

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