The Makem System lies on the remote fringes of the Outer Rim Territories, a small and often overlooked system centred around an aging yellow dwarf star. It is home to a single planet, Makem Te, which orbits along the innermost edge of the star’s habitable zone, resulting in a harsh climate of scorching days and freezing nights. Makem Te has captured a small field of asteroid debris, the leftover remnants of a failed secondary planetary accretion within the system. This asteroid field contains several bodies of notable size, and while some are large enough to be considered moons, the field’s orbit around Makem Te is highly unstable, with fragments periodically breaking away and returning centuries later.

Despite lying near the Perlemian Super-hyperlane, Makem has traditionally seen little traffic, its visitors once limited to sparse mining convoys and exploratory craft. In recent centuries, however, the system has gained renewed significance as pilgrims and scholars make their way to Makem Te’s Tract, the vast necropolis city revered as one of the most awe-inspiring and culturally important memorials in the known galaxy.