The Ceti Alpha system became a place of tragedy and exile in the late 23rd century.
Following the cataclysmic explosion of Ceti Alpha VI, the orbit of Ceti Alpha V was shifted, transforming it from a habitable world into a desolate, wind-swept wasteland—the cage for Khan Noonien Singh and his followers.
A prominent yellow main-sequence star. The gravitational stability of its inner accretion disk was permanently ruined in the late 23rd century.
A tidally locked, heavily irradiated rock baked by the primary star.
A barren, cratered planet swept by intense solar winds.
A high-pressure terrestrial world suffocating beneath a highly toxic, corrosive atmosphere.
A desolate outer-inner world, composed mostly of iron and silicate rock.
Once a highly habitable Class M world, it was reduced to a brutal, wind-swept desert wasteland after its orbit was violently shifted by the destruction of its neighboring planet.
The stripped-down orbital remnants of a late-20th-century DY-100 class sleeper ship. Its cargo pods were dropped to the surface to serve as a makeshift colony.
A massive, chaotic field of planetary fragments. This planet unexpectedly exploded six months after the Botany Bay crew was exiled, devastating the climate of Ceti Alpha V and permanently scarring the system.
A massive, ringed gas giant that regularly sweeps up stray debris ejected from the destruction of Ceti Alpha VI.
A frigid, ice-locked rock marking the outer boundary of the Ceti Alpha system.