Afterglow

Afterglow is home to a number of stars that have long since burned their brightest and are now merely passing the time as they slowly diminish. The development of sun-divers, heavily shielded ships that extract gases from the outermost layers of these dying suns, has led to a small tourist industry, with overly-rich and under-worked dilettante's trying their hand at sun-diving in small one-man ships, aiming to break the records for the longest and deepest successful dives. The Buccaneers discourage the activity, but have yet to actively try and put and end to it.