Providence III

Providence is a planet located in Federation space, and is the site of a Orion colony.

The Federation's Providence Planetform Research Team (numbering twenty-four) are stationed on the planet and attempting to solve the mystery of this world's origins. The planet appears to be an open-air terraforming lab where experiments in altering mountains, redirecting rivers, and changing weather patterns support more large-scale projects. The Orions claim to have fashioned this world and occasionally tinker with its many features using their own strange equipment. Still, the Federation team is skeptical and are attempting to do a little tinkering of their own, believing that whatever race built Rigel III may have created this planet too. (The Orions: Book of Common Knowledge)