As the lone gas giant in an otherwise tumultuous, debris-strewn sector, Kichnar (or Sea of Clouds) swings in a lazy path around the edge of the Caspian System. It's a planet of considerable mass, with over a thousand kilometers worth of electrical-storm-tossed atmosphere swirling atop layers of auldahene, methane, hydrogen, and helium. Somewhere in there, several veins of valuable trace gases were found. These were enough to warrant the construction of a remedial drilling & mining rig to be hastily constructed in low orbit to perform light prospecting work. The full potential yield, though, would not be realized for a few decades.