Located midway between the Rubicon and Cyclopia Sub-Sectors, Kvaran IX is a strategic world as well as a source of high-grade Promethium. While the planet appears suited for human life, all inhabitants must wear environmental suits when outside of the domed cities to protect against a still-undetected airborne threat. Unprotected respirations soon lead to brutal, unprovoked violence against anyone nearby, including their own flesh. The limited medicae facilities of the mining and refining camps have been utterly unable to isolate the cause, and desperate pleas for support from the Askelline Magi Biologis have so far been unsuccessful.