A thousand artificial moonlets circled Carinae in a complex interlacing of orbital paths. Every one was a great city home to tens of thousands of human beings. There was nothing of intrinsic worth within the system itself, but as Carinae lay on a warp conduit that led deep into the rich Argyluss Cluster, historitors theorised the system to have been established as a colonisation waypoint in the distant past. How the billions of tons of materials to construct the Thousand Moons had been brought to the place was a mystery, but the arts of the ancients had been broad and mighty, and by their will ten hundred cities shoaled the void.