Wanderer

WANDERER Other terms: Dark Object

General term describing a celestial object such as a moon, planet, planetoid or asteroid that is not associated to a star system and the gravitational pull of a star (hence dark object) and moves through intergalactic space. Dark Objects are thought after and considered useful and valuable by the Union. They provide real estate for bases and research stations. A dedicated branch of the Explorer Fleet is seeking Dark Objects and catalog them. The reason for Wanderers are celestial collisions, Suns going supernova or Suns going out. The original Terran definition for planet was: Wanderer, but the term now describes Dark Objects.