The Fray · Gate system
The farthest gate stop in the sector, and it runs on grant money.
A small scientific and exploration outpost, partly funded by outside interest (both Ophira's Archive and Kestrel's Exchange Council quietly bankroll research here), because the system sits adjacent to a substantial field of Precursor ruins.
Exports research findings, salvaged study-only Precursor artifacts, and expedition guiding services. Imports almost everything else — this system runs on grants and investment more than trade.
Poor to middling, but well-equipped in the specific ways that matter to its work, even if creature comforts are an afterthought.
The nearby ruin field is vast, and only a fraction of it has been surveyed. Thessaly Station is also the launch point for the partially-known Leviathan route to Hollowmere.
System chart
Diagram is schematic — orbits are not to scale. See distance and measurement.
Places
A research and survey station, not a full colony: scientists, surveyors, and the support staff and security they need. Population small, funding external, coffee perpetually rationed.
A substantial field of Precursor ruins adjacent to the system. It is vast, and only a fraction of it has been surveyed. This is the entire reason anyone funds Thessaly Deep.
Figures describe the largest surveyed fragment. The field extends well past it.
An ice world well outside the Ruin Field, carrying the Accord's deep listening station. Sounding Post is nine researchers on eighteen-month rotations, pointed outward rather than inward, on the argument that whatever built the ruins did not necessarily come from here.