Chi Zeral System

A smastar system of the Saelian Coalition, located quite close to the saelian homeworld of Cela, hence its saelian-sounding name.

The Chi Zeral star itself is a spectral class K star, emitting red-orange light and casting relatively little radiation to all the planets in the system. As such, outside of the very few innermost planets, most of the system is quite dark and cold. However, its small size also shortens the distance between the orbits of its various planets massively, allowing much easier and quicker space travel between them. Because of this, the saelians had no problem establishing a significant logistical network inside this system which has made it very easy to build large stations and colonies. Some poorer individuals across saelian society have moved (or were forced to move) into some of these very cheap colonies. They eventually declared independance, though not without a significant saelian coalition blockade. The coalition remained in control of the system until the later years of the Suon-Saelian War where invading suons have managed to dislodge all saelian resistance, of both the Coalition and the new colony. 

Though the new colony was placed back into saelian coalition governance under the new peace treaty, they were given much more freedom, resources and many of their desires fulfilled. Over time, they became culturally recognised as part of the Coalition, by all parties. As such, they would not see another rebellion in a very long time.

The Chi Zeral system also features an average amount of useful resources, a fact that has initially led to the saelians colonising this system in the first place. On the large scale of a star system, this proved to be a lot of resources especially with cheaper and faster logistics. As such, the Chi Zeral system was one of the more important systems for the saelians as they were initially optimising their FTL travel for easier travel between star systems, a necessary technology to conquer the stars.

The Chi Zeral system features a larger number of asteroid belts than other systems similar to it, and there are 2 large belts that divide the system into thirds, in a somewhat reminiscent manner to the Beta Targos System. These asteroids have been used mainly for mining, but because the system has had a history of war, there are some defences built in some of the asteroids which will allow enemy forces to get close before attacking them by surprise with very large weapons.

The Chi Zeral system has 1 gas giant, 2 ice giants, 2 rocky barren planets and 1 ice planet. Several of these planets also have asteroid belts, sometimes in the form of rings. The large planets in particular (the gas and ice giants) will capture a large amount of asteroids, some of which fall into the planets and they collect in the core of the giants, which is a theoretically very easy way to extract a huge amount of materials but is very difficult to reach safely. 

In more modern times, the Chi Zeral system also has a star lifter. Its convenient location near the saelian homeworld, its relative lack of important features and the smaller orbits of the star system make it an excellent place to put such a project