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The USS Daedalus arrives at the Reef Stars, and almost instantly finds a mystery. A nearby star system matches the criteria for the Icarus to have gone to as their first port of call, but upon approaching the star not only do they pick up the Icarus's log beacon, but an odd spectral cloud passing over the star.

There is a gas giant, of middling size for its class, and it comes with the assortment of moons and captured asteroids that you'd expect. But its shieloette is defused, fuzzy, an intervening cloud blocking the sunlight from passing neatly through it. A web of material stretching across orbits, holding moons in check against the colossal gravity that would break them apart. A web spanning the miniature worlds of this jovian kingdom.

And in its heart, beating softly, the subspace log beacon...