PLACE
Ashen Ore Cloud
Overview
Ashen Ore Cloud
Past Brass Vein and the polite lanes, the Ashen Ore Cloud smears the outer dark — a diffuse haze of metal-rich grit, ice grit, and survey beacons that lie about their last update. Claims overlap like bad paperwork. Tugs leave trails of glitter that look pretty until they sandblast your seals.
Independent prospectors swear every density spike is a fortune. Guild surveyors swear every spike is a lawsuit. Concord salvage tugs from the nearby ship graveyard sometimes cut across the cloud without asking, which is how fistfights start in radio range.
Nobody colonizes the cloud. People work it, fight in it, and leave mineral dust in the air filters of every dock that will still let them berth.
Location file
- Category
- belt
- Tags
- ore_cloud, outer_system, mining, claims, khesret
- scale
- diffuse outer cloud spanning days of junker burn
- tone
- Lonely, glittery, litigious
- senses
- Grit ping on hull, static beacons, thin radio, metal-dust taste in recycled air after EVA
- occupantSummary
- Prospectors, survey guild, scrap tugs cutting through, claim arbitrators who bill by the hour
- hazards
- Sandblast grit, false beacons, claim jumpers, graveyard tug traffic
- connections
- Approach lane to ship graveyard and IX scoop approaches
- travelNote
- ~Day+ from Prime; bring filters
- factionTies
- Survey guilds; independent claims; Concord-adjacent salvage routes
- isVendor
- false
Geography
- The Khesret Systemwithin
Connected
- Colonization Ship Graveyardconnected to
- Khesret-IX Scoop Corridorconnected to
Associated
- Khesret-IXassociated
- Brass Vein Mining Stationassociated