Encyclopedia Galactica: The Helix System
The Helix system contains no habitable worlds, although it does possess a mineral laden asteroid belt. To exploit this system its original owners, the APR created huge space colonies. At its height this series of linked space Colonies contained a population of over 28 million, with room for millions more. Helix quickly became APR’s manufacturing and shipbuilding center in the Twilight Sector. As such it was here that the Archenars created their secret fleet charged with taking Terra/Sol. Early in the war (2884) the Orion fleet destroyed the manufacturing and ship building capacity of the system. They avoided as much loss of life as possible and, although many of Helix’s citizens fled back to the APR, the system still contained 16 million inhabitants at the end of the Mutant War. Most of these were expendable, 1st to 9th level employees, so obviously the APR felt they were not giving up much when they abandoned the system at the end of the war. Before the war was over the Orion Confederation began providing large amounts of assistance in the rebuilding of the colony.
