Pergitor is a relatively small planet, riven with magma eruptions, lava flows, and massive sulfur eruptions. Having a supremely hostile environment, only about half of the planet is available for development, if anyone would wish to do so. Its relatively poor location, with regard to the rest of the galaxy, makes the system overall a bad location for any tourists while the lethal atmosphere renders the entire planet useless in any commercial endeavor. Only fringe groups, such as pirates and the like, would find any interest in Pergitor and even then, it would only be used for hiding from the authorities.

However, it does not seem that the planet was always so inhospitable. Archaeologists and geologists have come up with a very interesting theory, which also places doubt on the viability of any sort of enterprise on the planet. Studies of the ground and the artifacts dug up seem to indicate that the planet was once in a much more agreeable orbit around the Pergitor sun, with lush vegetation, and multiple species of fauna and flora. However, investment into describing the orbit of the planet seems to indicate that every year it drifts a little closer to the sun, and it was degradation that killed the planet. Scientists predict that within a few millennia, the planet will get too close to the sun for any ship to land, and a few years after that it will be pulled into the star itself.

Due to this decaying orbit, there have been severe effects on the other planetary bodies within the system. The asteroid field could have been a third planet if not for the wayward gravitational fields caused by the changing orbit. The other planet in the system, Onadax, has had its entire atmosphere removed by the passing planet.