Uranus

Description
After the development of mass effect FTL drive, distant Uranus was the target of a "land rush" to exploit its combination of plentiful helium-3 fuel and shallow (for a gas giant) gravity well. Today Uranus is the largest producer of He-3 in Alliance space.

Population: 371,000

Capital: Sakharov Station

Trivia

 * The in-game information incorrectly gives the orbital period of Uranus as 121.1 years; it is actually 84.3 years. The distance is right, though.


 * Sakharov Station is likely named for noted Soviet nuclear physicist and political dissident Andrei Sakharov, a key figure in the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons program who later in life specialized in cosmology.