Cathcart System

The Cathcart system is an unclaimed planetary system that consists of a class A main sequence star and an asteroid belt. Discovered in SEY 2438 by Human fugitive Adelaide Lorris, who named the system after the Marshal who had been pursuing her, it was not claimed by the United Nations of Earth (UNE) due to its lack of planets. Instead, the military utilized it as a junkyard for outdated and damaged spacecraft and space stations. It wasn't long before outlaws and drifters began to claim the abandoned vessels, lashed the salvaged hulls together, and retrofitted them with atmospheric systems. By the 2700s, this mass of interconnected ships became the system's largest settlement, a sprawling network of repurposed space junk nicknamed "Spider."