Sulakta is a Waste World that shares its star with a strategically important Hive World and the Penal World that is used to replenish the slave work force. Sulakta is very much at the end of the production line as a literal dumping ground for materials deemed too unsafe to be stored on the inhospitable irradiated rock of Estomor. The planet maintains a token Imperial outpost tasked with the intricate dumping operation complimented by sporadic processing plants have been set up by opportunistic merchant guilds looking to profit from the hazardous extraction of valuable minerals from industrial waste.