Lerden is not a planet but a star, where the endless gravitic tides of the universe have created shoals and reefs of asteroids, floating wrecks from all over the universe, and the remains of broken stellar bodies from elsewhere. Local space is incredibly stable and the orbits of the junk collections are slow, wide, and without variation.
A gas giant also occupies this system with the remains of a fueling station built around it. It's holding tanks have exploded somehow, causing terminal damage.
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