Kassegar (system)

The Kassegar System—not to be confused with its namesake polity, the Confederation of Kassegar—is a multiplanetary system in the Helius Cluster. The Kassegar System is home to 4 planets and numerous smaller orbital objects, each circling a single star: Kassegar A76.

Historically, the Kassegar System has played a pivotal role in the colonization of the Helius Cluster by humans (and, more recently, by other species). Home of the Van Maanen Gate and two large and highly habitable continental planets, the system was not only the place through which humans crossed, it was also the financial, cultural, and population center for all humans in the Helius Cluster (and remained such even after the collapse of the Van Maanen Gate).

Even through surface observation, it's evident that this system was a population center in the distant past, presumably for the same intergalactic polity that constructed the Van Maanen Gate and other similar gates. However, archeological digs have revealed that the settlements (which seem to have been primarily centered around research and engineering) were abandoned with no sign of war.

Today, the system is the capital of the Kassegar Confederation and the most populous system within the human sphere. Home to almost half of all people within the Kassegar Confederation and the center for the production of nearly two-thirds of the Confederation's wealth, it is easily the capital of the human polity in more ways than just one.