Athos IV was the uninhabited fourth planet in its star system. This planet was a barren, fog-shrouded world located in the Demilitarized Zone, inside the Badlands, in the Alpha Quadrant. This was briefly, in 2373, the home of an underground Maquis base, one of the last surviving pockets of the Maquis after the Dominion massacred the resistance group. The Maquis at the base supposedly fired a volley of cloaked missiles towards Cardassia Prime as a final act of revenge. Captain Benjamin Sisko persuaded Michael Eddington to guide him to the planet and help him stop the missiles, whereupon he discovered that they did not in fact exist, and the message announcing the attack was to signal Eddington that the Maquis there were still alive. Unfortunately, the Jem'Hadar had discovered and overran mu