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.