Turaxis Delta

Turaxis Delta is a former mining platform used in the early Confederate mining operations of the Turaxis system. It was later coopted by the 4th Dead Men Walking, and changed hands over the years to finally serve as a research facility for the Alterian Syndicate.

Background
Turaxis Delta was first commissioned by Raffin Brothers Mining, a central figure in the mining operations of Turaxis, to aid in the resource gathering operations on Turaxis II and the surrounding asteroids. As it was designed to operate near a highly populated planet, it was smaller than its brother platforms, Turaxis Alpha and Beta, which mined the surrounding planets and needed more space to stay self sufficient. Turaxis Delta meanwhile served as a hub for miners and contained much more in the way of civilian commodities, including becoming a hub between orbital craft and warp-capable larger ships.

However, when the Guild Wars broke out, Turaxis Delta was evacuated to the fringe of the system to avoid its destruction by the Kel-Morian Combine invasion of the world. As the battle on Turaxis II escalated, focus was taken away by the platform, and it became easy pickings for bandit groups. Soon the 4th incarnation of the infamous interstellar bandit group Dead Men Walking raided the platform, killing the few Confederate guards and private security, and took the platform back to Dead Man's Port.

The platform changed hands multiple times over its lifetime, after the Dead Men Walking were again disbanded due to a civil war, it fell into the hands of L7, then Mira's Marauders, then the Plague Bats. Finally however it was purchased by the Alterian Syndicate, and moved to the Abaddon system. There the Syndicate began to take in a number of strange caged zerg, which reports say were unlike any zerg encountered. A number of mercenary forces were placed around the non-critical levels of the platform, leading many to wonder what exactly was on the platform that required such a heavy guard. Some speculated a new drug, some speculated some sort of weapon development plant, but some whispers were that they were undergoing a project for the Umojan government itself.