Knossos
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Knossos is a star system in the Artemis Tau cluster. In the asari cycle, the system was first populated by the Batarian People's Republic during its 13th century expansions into the Attican Traverse, therefore making its occupation of Artemis Tau illegal under interstellar law. The batarian presence in Knossos was light, with only a small colony established on Therum in order to explore the prothean facilities unearthed by batarian archaeologists. After the Quarian-Batarian War, the batarians were forced to abandon these efforts, but kept the discovery secret out of spite, once again violating Council law, this time in regards to uncovered prothean technology. Knossos would remain uninhabited aside from the odd criminal activity for centuries afterwards, until its colonization by the Systems Alliance in the 2160s, with a permanent settlement established at Nova Yekaterinburg. The Batarian Hegemony lay claim to the ruins there briefly before the Skyllian Blitz, and afterwards, relinquished their claim permanently.
Knossos would become the secret new staging area for the Shadow Broker's operations after the Reaper War, remaining as such until after the Dominion Civil War when the Broker's organization was officially dissolved. Since then, Knossos has remained an uneventful territory of the Systems Coalition.
The system is named after the Ancient Greek city-state of Knossos, which was located on the island of Crete.