Ceti Alpha VI

Ceti Alpha VI was the uninhabited sixth planet of the Ceti Alpha system. This system was located in Sector 25712. It was located a considerable distance from the Delphic Expanse and the planet Denobula as well as three days away from Regula I at an unspecified warp speed. The nearest starbase was Starbase 12. 

The planet exploded for reasons unknown in 2267, approximately six months after Khan Noonien Singh and his followers were exiled on Ceti Alpha V. The shock of the explosion shifted the orbit of Ceti Alpha V, destroying that planet's ecosystem, making the planet virtually uninhabitable.

In 2285, the USS Reliant arrived in the Ceti Alpha system to find a suitable planet for testing of the Genesis Device. Pavel Chekov and Terrell beamed down to Ceti Alpha V, mistakenly thinking it was Ceti Alpha VI. Just before they were captured by Khan and his Augments, Chekov realized that they had made a grave error, discovering that the cargo containers they'd found belonged to Khan's ship, the Botany Bay. 

In an alternate timeline, Human refugees fled to the Ceti Alpha system, following the Xindi's successful destruction of Earth in February 2154, during the relentless pursuit of the Xindi to eradicate all Human colonies.

Background information
Whether the Ceti Alpha system was located in the Mutara sector had not been established in canon. The, however, located this system in the sector. According to the Star Trek: Star Charts ("United Federation of Planets II") and the Stellar Cartography: The Starfleet Reference Library ("Federation Historical Highlights, 2161-2385"), the Ceti Alpha system was located in the Beta Quadrant.

Apocrypha
In Greg Cox's novel To Reign in Hell: The Exile of Khan Noonien Singh, Spock theorizes that a small black hole might have passed through the system, too small to be detected easily by the sensors aboard the Enterprise, and that its immense gravity destroyed Ceti Alpha VI and fundamentally altered the orbit of Ceti Alpha V.

The Star Trek: Vanguard novel Storming Heaven sets out that its destruction is inadvertently caused by Starfleet use of Shedai technology.

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