S-0

System Statistics
Technology Rating: 8 (past the verge of collapse)

Enviornment Rating: -8 (no habitable worlds)

Resource Rating: -8 (no resources)

System Aspects
"Aftermath of collapse"

"Completely untraversable"

"Seed system"

Planets
Many garden worlds at one point, but records have been lost.

History
S-0 is a dead end. Some of the older systems in the cluster have records from thousands of years ago that indicate it was once a thriving system with many populated worlds. These few remaining accounts indicate a just and widely respected government, great scientific progress, and a content population. Communications with the system ceased abruptly and without warning. When a probe was sent through the slipstream to examine the system it was ripped apart instantly. The last communication it made as it was torn asunder was a 1 second video clip of the front of the probe being pulled into the event horizon of a black hole. The single second of footage was broadcast by the communications systems still in the slipstream and therefore untouched by the gravity of the black hole on the other side, and has been sealed away permanently. It is rumored that viewing that one second of what should by all laws of physics be a completely unseeable event is enough to destroy the mind of any sentient being, or at least drive them thoroughly insane. Some minor cults have sprung up around that one glimpse. Though it is highly unlikely that any of their members could ever access the files, they claim that what one sees in the event horizon is the face of the creator himself.

In fact, S-0 has been the source of inspiration for a number of cults. One of the most famous among them is the anti-tech movement, HASTe (Humanoids Against Slipstream Technology), which claim that the system is the result of a race that damned itself by its rampant technological growth. Many cults have a more positive perspective on the system, claiming it as the birthplace of many of the species now inhabiting the nearby slipstream space, though among these groups beliefs vary greatly as well. For example, the cult known as "The Exiles" puts forth the belief that S-0 contained paradise and that the paradise was taken away because of our own corruption. Exiles preach that one must spend ones' life performing good deeds and acts of kindness in order to atone for these sins. On the other hand, "The Returnists" are a religious cult that instructs members to return to the one-ness of the galaxy by traversing the slipstream to the dead system - though not until they have bequeathed all of their mortal possessions to the cult's leader, known only as the "Great Father". So he can spread the word of God of course.

While the mystery surrounding the collapse of the system's sun is still unresolved, the consensus is that the cataclysm was caused by the inhabitants of the system.

Notable Characters
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