Officially, Inanis, Resonants or extraterrestrials do not exist.
The remote settlements and mining operations of the Belt are often the first to encounter Inanis phenomena.
Prospectors have found impossible materials embedded within asteroids that should contain nothing artificial. Salvage crews have recovered objects from abandoned regions with no record of previous human activity. Pilots report signals originating from empty space and navigation systems producing routes toward locations that do not exist.
These reports do not mean that the people encountering them understand what they have found. Similar stories may describe unrelated technical failures, navigation errors, radiation effects, deliberate deception, or genuine Inanis phenomena. Without access to classified research, most Belters have no reliable way to distinguish between them.
Most of these incidents are never officially documented. Crews may hide discoveries to avoid corporate seizure, sell artifacts through black markets, or destroy them out of fear.
Independent technicians and scientists sometimes record unusual readings or develop improvised methods for recognizing conditions associated with earlier incidents. Such methods are based on experience and correlation rather than an understanding of Inanis itself, and they are no more inherently reliable than comparable Terran or Martian research.
The UTA and MCR quietly monitor reports of unusual discoveries and send agents, researchers, or military teams to secure suspected sites. These interventions are usually disguised as safety inspections, criminal investigations, or disputed mining claims.
Belters exposed to Inanis materials may become Resonants without understanding what happened to them. Some are taken by inner-world authorities. Others are hidden by their communities or learn to conceal their abilities.
Among certain Belters, Inanis has entered folklore. It is described as a voice in the hull, a shadow between signals, or something ancient sleeping inside the rocks.
Most dismiss these stories as spacer superstition.