Gateway System

Gateway is a system which serves as the border between the Nexus and the sprawling ruins of the Hexamite paleocivilization. It is here where explorers, treasure hunters, and xenocultists alike enter these vast unknowns in search of knowledge, riches, or enlightenment.

Astrography

The system's only star is a dim K-type, circled by two rocky planets (both too hot for habitability) and three gas giants. No asteroid belt is present, however the system does have an expansive Kuiper belt with multiple known dwarf planets.
Its most striking features are the pair of relic megastructures built by the Hexamites before their civilization fell: Silverband, a planetary-scale ringworld rotating for gravity on its inner surface, and the Skyring, a thin disk of breathable atmosphere surrounding the innermost gas giant.
A single stargate, in the trailing Trojan point of the innermost gas giant, provides access to Normandy, the next star upstream. Hexamite starbridges are scattered throughout the system and provide access deeper into their space.

History

There is no evidence of Hexamite activity in systems outward from Gateway before their civilization's collapse, leading xenologists to suspect it was an undeveloped frontier or staging site for further starbridge expansion which was never pursued. Silverband, incomplete and with some floor sections unfinished, appears to have been carefully mothballed in preparation for a restoration which never came.

Stars

1x K8V

Planets

5 total
2x rocky non-habitable
3x gas giant

Type

Solar System