The Calamity Ring

The Calamity Ring is where most of what few dedicated spacers there are earn a living, and make their homes. It is an asteroid belt made up entirely of destroyed, ruined hulks of ships of various sizes. From snub fighters no bigger than flying coffins to battleships that once measured in double digit kilometers in length, hundreds of billions of tons of metal and machinery and electronics of the most advanced sorts, all reduced to scrap. A horrific battle of epic proportions took place in Charybdis during the Collapse, that much people remember. But against who or what, they do not- all those who once knew chose not to record that knowledge, and took it with them to their graves.

It has become the single biggest, and most dangerous, scrapyard in the system. Mountains of wealth are waiting there to be exploited.. If one can brave and survive the dangers of demons and xenomorphic horrors that have evolved to survive in a hard vacuum, of course. The few salvager clans that live out here permanently try their level best to avoid such monstrous things, and stick to exploiting the safest zones they can for rare technologies and parts to sell to the planetbound. They’ve all managed to, if only barely, carve out a tiny and fairly comfortable- if precarious- niche for themselves in the void.

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