Question about the big nomad (Omicron?) system with that big weird space machine graphic..

[Lupusy]

So.. I was scouting round up past Chugoku I think and heading round to Omicron 85 or Omicronn major way

and I hit this system which was largely empty and instead of the starry space graphics I got this huge sort of alient surface.. as if I was flyig over a huge alien mschine spread across the entire system.. also a few nomads were zooming round..

its very nice but ---- could someone explain what it is and why it is there?

i have discovery open sp enabled and of course i cant get past mission 4:(so have no real idea what that space machine thingy is. I do know that in the end trent joins the order and maybe they stoop the nomads or something.

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