“ | Grendel. A star system where nothing is happening, nothing ever has happened, and nothing ever will happen | ” |
Grendel is a largely uninhabited system on the border of Syndicate and Alliance space that had to be transited by pre-hypernet convoys relying on system jump points. It was the location of Commander John Geary's famous battle the beginning of the war and where he spent nearly a century in hibernation.
It is known that Grendel is accessible via the Alliance systems of T'shima and Beowulf, as well as the Syndicate system of Shannin. Furthermore Grendel was home to an emergency station intended for providing aid to ships in distress passing through the star system. The base was either destroyed or abandoned during the Alliance-Syndicate War. Because of the danger to Alliance shipping, Grendel was eventually abandoned in favor of a longer trip through Beowolf, Caderock, and then Rescat to T'shima.