As the techniques for studying the physical sciences have improved, the universe and the orga- nized matter contained therein become more complex and wonderful The deeper one looks into space, the more strange and var led the objects one finds become The unimagmed becomes real, the impossible becomes reality This is certainly true for the Canopus planetary system, a system with many unique properties The data contained within the following has been gleaned from the multitude of scientific papers authored by Arrakian scientists over hundreds of years CANOPUS-GALACTIC LOCATION Canopus is located in the secondary trailing spiral arm of the great barred spiral galaxy, Starspen Its position places Canopus at a distance of 129,000 light years from the nucleus of the galaxy Being ot the barred spiral form, the galaxy is well up on the galactic evolutionary track, indicating a cosmic age of 12 billion years Hence, the Starspen galaxy has entered middle age The Starspen galaxy rotates once every 300,000 years, which is slower than most galaxies of this type In physical appearance the galaxy is typical except for dust content Because of the extensive central dust and gas clouds, the nuclear region ot the galaxy is totally obscured Penetrable only by energetic microwaves, the physical nature of the galactic nucleus was totally unknown until 15557 when Nilen developed the microtronic detector Almost immediately the central re gion was found to be dominated by a 100-million-stellar-mass white hole The vast outpouring of mass and energy replenishes the energy and mass reserves of the galaxy It is now, of course well known that all galaxies are powered by a central, massive nuclear white hole Where this mass and energy originates has not been established with any certainty, but there is considerable support for the Arrakian theor> that mass and energy (i e photons) are drawn into a gravitational singularity, or black hole, m an alternate universe and enter this universe by way of an inverse gravitation singularity, or white hole Clearly, the physics of such objects and the resulting spatial and temporal distortions of dimensional space are indeed bizarre CANOPUS-LOCAL STAR GROUP The region occupied by Canopus is relatively sparse- ARRAKIS, ASTRONOMY ARRAKIS ASTRONOMY ly populated Fifty-seven stars he within a ten-light-year radius (8,000 cubic light years) The majonty (forty-four) of these stars are class PO red dwarfs Averaging an absolute magnitude of +16, they are intrinsically extremely faint and very old, low-mass stars whose lives will end as cold black dwarfs Of the other thirteen stars, eight are residents of class R4 to R9 These average-mass, yellow stars are all known to have three or more planets orbiting them with conditions on some suitable for habitation by organic life The nearest member of this group of stars is 7 76 kght years from Canopus Four of the five remaining nearest stars are class T and T3 super giant vari