The Novolek Beacon was a pulsar star located in the Periphery between Nwarcol Point, Sriluur and Sedri. It was a trans-dimensional energy streamer, sending out pulses of radiation, heat and matter. Gravitational, multidimensional, curves passed through the star, creating a massive hyperspace shadow. The star did not have the mass to cause a collapse into a singularity. A strange phenomenon called the Ei'shuun Aa Effect caused fragments of stellar plasma to break off from the Beacon, dragging disproportionate hyperspace shadows, at unpredictable intervals. Further, subspace itself was distorted. To the protected natural eye, however, the star was merely a typical particle fountain. Every 28 days, 12 hours and 42 minutes the star flared, though the flare itself might have lasted a few minute