Hereby the report for the excursion into the system designated as Roussillon or Tau-115. OIT Cinzia Selvaggio and myself started our way from Cali Base in Tau-23 and headed for Tau-29, where we reached the jump hole to Tau-115. Once inside Tau-115, we found ourselves inside a well-deployed mine field and proceeded with utmost caution. It should be of note that there were no defences directly next to the jump hole, but the exit of the mine field was guarded by the Battleship Pamiers, though we managed to slip past it, thanks to our light equipment. From there we proceeded into the Ariege Barrier Nebula and scoured it systematically for anything of note. The nebula itself contained three clusters of asteroid fields, which were mostly large chunks of ice floating in space. We found two uninhabited planets, Prades and Ceret as well as two bases (one of which modular), with the names Montauban, Le Boulou, and the Parisian Revolutionists HQ. Le Boulou was encased in a mine field as well, and apparently guarded a jump hole into the Newcastle system.
Leaving the nebula, we encountered the Perpignan Spaceport right outside of it, which made us believe that it is likely a refuel point for ships going to and coming from Newcastle, and it is highly likely that the Council has its influence in that system. Passing Toulouse and its moon Le Soler, we made a turn for the Tarn Barrier Nebula on the other side of the system, though this one proved to be far less interesting than the other. Containing only one large cluster of ice asteroids, this nebula hid the Cassaude Depot, Planet Elne and a jump hole to Baffin.
Once it was clear that we had been wasting our time looking through this nebula for more objects of interest, we moved out again, moving towards the system's middle. The only things of note there were three further planets, Argeles, which is a gas giant of unknown composition, and Foix, a desert planet too close to the sun to sustain an atmosphere, and another cluster of ice asteroids that seemed to be caught in the gravitational well of the small, desolated moon Tarascon. With the entire system scoured, we made our way back to the Tau-29 jump hole and left quickly, evading the battleship guarding the bottleneck leading through the mine field towards the jump hole.
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