U III
A large gas giant planet in the U System which is owned by the HEX Mainframe.
U III has a relatively large mass for a gas giant, normally making it quite valuable for material extraction as hydrogen is a very common fusion reactor fuel. However, they have few gas collection stations on the gas giant; and the ones they use all have non-solid cables. Instead, the HEX Mainframe uses the extreme pressure of the gas giant for scientific purposes. These typically are some form of military black project, but the gas giant is also used for other things. There is very little solid core so the pressure variance can be great depending on the altitude. They have also establised stations in a way that they can ignite the gas giant shortly in the event of Data Fae incursion to destroy everything on the world and prevent Fae invasion. The HM would then continue their projects within the gas giant after they cool it back down to normal temperatures. The HM have used these chances to also investigate stellar formation - as ignition is one key stage of this phenomenon. The Data Fae in the system have seen this happen a number of times. As such, they try to avoid this planet when possible, but some suicidal fae sometimes come anyway. Sometimes they plan mass invasions. U III also has a number of asteroid mines set up on a large asteroid ring. The ring loses mass with every time the HM ignite the gas giant, but is still a key location as it is very close to such an important world and has valuable materials within them.
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