Tabit

Tabit is the capital system of the Mirandan Empire and home system of the Mirandans, the recipients of some f the most sophisticated genetic engineering in known space. The exact date of the settlement of Tabit has long since been forgotten, but most archaeologists put it sometime in the 1440s BGC. What is known is that the original settlers were radical scientists obsessed with using genetic engineering to create the "perfect" human. The Mirandans are the result of their work. The Mirandans existed in isolation for 1500 years until a Traveller ship happened to land upon their world. The Mirandans spent the next century and a half reverse engineering the technology they discovered. During this time, three more Traveller ships happened upon their world and all three were captured just as the first one was. Eventually the Travellers declared the system off-limits and removed it from the HABCAT database.