Planet Pygar

A desert world scoured clean by ceaseless sandstorms that wash across its surface. During initial surveys. individual sandstorms that lasted for several years reached top speeds of 805 km/h. Most surface probes were destroyed in a matter of hours and no further surveys have been attempted. After becoming aware, that many Alien Arifacts had their origin in the clouds of this system, the Cambridge Research Insitute financed archaeological excavations on the planet, after considerable public pressure of one of the leading xenoarchaeologist. After the expedition left, the Zoners of nearby Freeport 9, who had already managed most of the expeditions support, took over the installations and started to extend them to a modest base. Maybe the beginning of the first Zoners planetary colony in Sirius.