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Sil'Lume Asteroid Belt

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orbiting the star Sil'Lume, this huge asteroid field was considered fairly easy to navigate. This was because, despite a million planetoids and billions of smaller chunks of rock in the belt, there was a great deal of space between them all. The Sil'Lume Belt was incredbily wide, taking up millions of square kilometers of orbital real estate. Nearly 900,000 of the asteroids had been catalogued by their owners, and each was assigned a number and a name. The number corresponded to the order in which it was catalogued, and the name was that of the asteroid's first owner. Thus, 24 Tredway was the twenty-fourth asteroid catalogued in the Belt, and was originally owned by the Tredway family. Most of the asteroids in the Sil'Lume Belt were owned by miners and prospectors, until the Empire took control of the Belt and began taking taxes and other tariffs from the independent owners.