The Dallas Incident was an event which devastated the Texas system in approximately 500 AS. At the time, the Texas system was both the location of Liberty's testing ground for experimental and possibly incredibly dangerous high tech doodads. After the incident, Texas became Liberty's preferred destination for "economic undesireables" after processing by Liberty's Prison-Industrial complex. The Planet Houston, on the eastern side of the system, away from Planet Dallas, was not apparently affected greatly by the blast. Liberty has declined to publish all the details of the incident; what is known is pieced together from news clippings and rumors.