Due to being unsuitable for settlement, devoid of any immediately easily exploitable resources, and largely unfit for human habitation, huge portions of Ceres were unceremoniously auctioned off by the Department of Planetary Exploitation during the late stages of human expansion, resulting in it becoming an industrial chemical synthesis hub. Environmental restrictions on industrial processes on the dwarf planet were largely removed, apparently due to the idea that it would be hard to make the place any worse. These days, Ceres is the industrial administration hub of Sol.

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