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Abydos |
Known in ancient days to Old Earth astronomers as Cor Caroli, this is a magnetic star with a stellar atmosphere enriched in silicon, mercury and europium. It was one of the first stars to be linked with a wormhole to Fons Luminis, and acted as the Solar Dominion's greatest source of amat, exotic matter and strange matter for almost a thousand years. From the beginning it came to be a center for Sun Miners who worked together with Dominion engineers to construct gigantic generators by extending superconducting tethers from asteroids and planets into the star's magnetic field; by turning their angular momentum into electricity they got a readily available source of energy for star mining, matter compression and amat production.
Today Abydos is a heavily industrialised and developed system, of more historical and cultural then resource value, with a number of large orbital bands, banking and virchconstruct services, galleries, museums, labs, amat production and weylforges, computronium banks, interstellar catapults, and wormhole plexi. It remains the historical home to a number of important Sun Miner Houses and Clades.
