Vesperite-9. The miners who died there just called it the Claim.
When the Lumen Gates went dark, every combine on the rim lost its road home. One world still holds ore enough to forge a new gate — a mineral-glutted dwarf planet at the dead end of the network.
Each claimant drops a single Landfall Crawler. No fleet follows. Every hull, every shell, every watt you will ever field comes out of the ground you take and hold.
VANTAR COMBINE — Old-money heavy industry, come to strip the Claim and haul it home. "Weight wins."
MERIDIAN ACCORD — Technocrat sensor-lords who see first and lie best — and want the network, not the way home.
KORRIGAN FREEHOLDS — Frontier dust-clans who were here first — they would rather the Gate stay dead.
PALE SYNDICATE — Gate-smugglers and salvage barons. Nothing they field is quite what it appears to be.
Whoever rebuilds the gate goes home. Whoever doesn't, feeds the dust.