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 All faster-than-light travel was based on usage of a rare basic element, dilithium, as starship fuel. The substance was first discovered in 2070 by a danish scientist from a meteorite crash site in Greenland. Since then, despite the enormous efforts to mine dilithium, supplies were quickly being depleted. There was a lot of tension between UNSF and the other major spacefaring faction, Soviet States of Mezen (SSM) in the dilithium issue.


 The third planet of Hell's Gate star system was found to be by far richest source of dilithium ever discovered - thus it the planet's worth to any spacefaring faction was immense. However, as UNSF quickly found out, dilithium wasn't the only thing of strategic importance on Hell's Gate III...


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