A star system at the edge of the New Frontier, whose six planets now include the inhabited worlds of Mitochondria and New Wyoming, though at one time (pre-AnarchEra) the system also included the Krystal planet Vaikuntha, base of IER-CO’s fueling operations, destroyed during the later units of the Rebellion. (See: Incorporated Elysian Republic, The) The many remnants, or chunks of Vaikuntha now circle the system’s star in an orbit between New Wyoming and Mitochondria, just a tad closer to Mitochondria, hence its name, the Mitochondrian Krystal Belt. Post-rebellion mining operations in the Belt, founded and financed by the Medea family of New Wyoming, itself founded by Hera of the Revolution Molly Medea, later passed to the ownership of the belt’s miners, through the last will and testament of Mary Medea. It has often been said of Prime Minister Glorianna of Phoebus, elected Priestess-Queen of the Belters, “She who controls the miners, controls the Krystals.” (See: High Muckety-Muck)