Aquarii 3

Aquarii 3

Union Star System – formely known as EZ Aquarii 3

This triple star system is located only about 11.1 light-years (ly) from  Sol,  The high proper motion of EZ Aquarii may have been discovered by Willem Jacob Luyten (1899-1994), who found the proper motions of over 520,000 stars despite the loss of sight in one eye since 1925 by building an automated photographic plate scanner and measuring machine. All three stars are M-type red dwarfs near the hydrogen burning mass limit -- at least 75 Jupiter masses -- with an aggregate mass of about 34 percent of Sol's (Woitas et al, 2000; or Defosse et al, 1999). At least one of the three stars is a flare star, but all three are too faint to be seen with the naked eye.

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The system contains three stars M-Tyre Red Dwarfs – Known as Aquarii 1 – 3 and seven planets including a dust ring and a substantial asteroid field (Aquarii Field) There are 19 large asteroids and planetoids.

The Planets are: The system has been colonized during the end of the Second Exodus. None of the planets are garden worlds and Habakkuk and Hot are tidal locked,with permanent day and night sides.
 * Habanero
 * Hot
 * Hell
 * Hades
 * Habakkuk
 * Hicks

The main industries remain mining and smelting. There are a large number of planet and space born smelters and refineries. Young Mining of Planet Hot is the largest employer operating mines, scooper fleet, smelters and a large fleet of ore haulers.(hauling ore all across the Union now)

Hades features a large freighter service space dock facility. There is a Class B space port on Hicks and a dedicated ore  and refined metal transfer facility in orbit around Hell. 4 Billion Union Citizens call the system home.