A Vandanium is any planetary body, natural or constructed, that bears the industrial or technological signature of the Greater Vandyrian Empire, regardless of size, origin, or primary function.
The term encompasses resource moons, engineered asteroids, orbital manufactories, atmospheric harvesters, and all worlds or artificial structures marked by the presence of Vandyrian extractive infrastructure, industrial works, or machine networks.
Vandanium status is conferred when a body is brought into the logistical, mechanical, or energetic lattice of the Empire; it is a designation of technical dominion, not of culture or governance.
In most records, the distinction is a practical one: to be classed as Vandanium is to be worked, surveilled, and transformed for the needs of the imperial engine, but not necessarily to be inhabited or administered in the Vandyrian mode.
