Dark Shoal

Description of Site
In 2320.Q3.M2 the Odyssey investigated a star system corresponding to the “Dark Shoal” of Fiiral religious tradition, into which a number of interstellar expeditions had disappeared. The system's star is dark, cold, surface smooth with thin lines hinting at crystallization. It’s a black dwarf, a star that shouldn’t exist. Crisscrossing beams of strange physics cut across the system,. Based on how some of beams bloom as if striking some sort of deflector screen, the current theory is that this system was the site of some titanic battle, between two fleets using weapons almost beyond our comprehension. The intense EM emission comes from the convergence of several thousand of these anomalous beams, which could have been concentrated fire on some important flagship or installation. If this battle happened in the distant past, the future, or is the afterimage of colossal energies released in some other dimension entirely is a matter of considerable debate. Shortly after the Odyssey reached the inner system, the object orbiting the black dwarf accelerated upwards at warp 25, relative to the galactic plane. The star transitioned to a white dwarf as normal physical laws suddenly applied to it. The minerals in this system are pure and in large quantities, so so after placing navigational beacons to avoid the weapons fire and a shield erected in the front of the EM source, it was possible to build a station and start mining operations.

Other Notes
Every miner who works in this system agrees it is “spooky as hell”. In their off shifts, several amateur archeological teams are slowly mapping the system in an attempt to locate the wreckage of the destroyed Fiiral ships and who knows... perhaps the fabled sword of King Hiir-Addit, the Fiiral king who supposedly threw it into the black star to prevent capture.