M24 Alpha

M24 Alpha was a star system, in the Alpha or the Beta Quadrant. It lay in an otherwise unpopulated sector, 11.630 light-years from Gamma II. 


 * Worlds mistakenly says N24, though the gives the actual name.

It was a trinary system, composed of three stars. They primary was a yellow star of moderate size, while the others were another yellow star and a white dwarf. They orbited a common center of gravity. This was a highly unusual stellar configuration, and M24 Alpha was one of two such systems ever charted by the Federation. 

The system was home to two planets, which orbited the primary star. The second, M24 Alpha II, was a Class M planet named Triskelion, which was home to the Providers and their thralls. By known astrophysics, it was highly unlikely that Triskelion could have developed as a Class M planet in a trinary system like M24 Alpha, prompting theories that the Providers moved the planet into its present orbit by their technology or their mental power. 


 * Worlds makes Triskelion the only planet in the system.