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System Overview

	Leeds
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	System
Governing House	Independent
Region	Tau Border Worlds
Connected Systems	New London; Newcastle; Tau-31; Dublin; Edinburgh; Magellan;

Astronomical Bodies

Stellar Objects

Medium Yellow

TYPE: G2
LUMINOSITY: V
COLOR: Yellow
TEMPERATURE: 5K
MASS: 1.99 x 10e30 kg
DIAMETER: 1.39 x 10e7 km

Planetary Objects

Planet	Owner
Planet Leeds	Uninhabited
Planet Waterford	Uninhabited

Nebulae & Asteroids

East Leeds Smog Cloud
Edinburgh Debris Field
LD-14 Uranium Asteroid Field
Stokes Asteroid Field
West Leeds Smog Cloud

Industrial Development

Space Stations

Station	Owner
Battleship Ark Royal	Bretonia Armed Forces
Harrogate Station	Ageira Technologies
Durham Outpost	Border World Exports
Halifax Freeport	Freelancers
LD-14 Construction Site	BMM

Commodity Mining

Scrap Metal
Toxic Waste

Faction Presence

Lawful Factions

Bretonia Armed Forces
Freelancers

Corporations & Guilds

Ageira Technologies
BMM
Border World Exports

Unlawful Factions

System Map

Areas of Interest

Nebulae

East Leeds Smog Cloud

A large cloud of smog that has coalesced over the centuries from the various industrial operations throughout Leeds. Gaians and Outcasts are often sighted within the cloud.

West Leeds Smog Cloud

A large cloud of smog that has coalesced over the centuries from the various industrial operations throughout Leeds. The cloud provides cover for anyone looking to attack shipping within Leeds.

Asteroid Fields

Edinburgh Debris Field

>>>WARNING: RESTRICTED AREA<<<

The Edinburgh Debris Field is a highly radioactive zone of scrap metal and gravitational eddies. It is the remains of the Aquitaine - still known to Bretonians as Edinburgh - Jump Gate, destroyed by the Order of Queen Carina herself. The order was given to destroy the gate when it became apparent that the system would not be recaptured in short order, so as to deny the Royalist remnants any additional avenues of attack should they have chosen to unlock the gate.

The operation to destroy the gate was conducted in secret by the Bretonian Intelligence Service, though from the small scale of the debris and the intense radiation, most speculate that the destruction of the gate was carried out with high yield nuclear warheads directly affixed to the superstructure of the device. Travel into the field is extremely dangerous, and Bretonia has quarantined the area, citing it as a major safety hazard to civilian traffic.

Stokes Asteroid Field

A medium-size asteroid field rich in aluminum, titanium and niobium, Bretonia Mining and Manufacturing (BMM) historically worked the field with great success, smelting and refining raw materials obtained from the field at the massive Stokes smelting facility nearby. Mining operations were occupied by GMS during the war, but following the Glassing of Leeds the field fell silent. Considerable resources within the field remain, though with Stokes in ruins, any mined ore would have to be transported elsewhere.

LD-14 Uranium Asteroid Field

>>>CAUTION<<<

This dense Uranium asteroid field once held the LD-14 uranium processing center, responsible for producing the majority of MOX used by Bretonia and Kusari. The asteroid field and its pockets of radiation provided natural protection against attempts to raid the facility, but the Gallic invasion of Leeds resulted in the facilities destruction. Now, the field is mined remotely for uranium found within, and delivered to Belvedere in New London for MOX production, though mining operations are raided constantly by pirates.

Wrecks

Ottawa - E/D-8/7

Commissioned in 804 AS, this Overlord class Battleship would have replaced the aging Battleship Yukon. Before the Ottawa was christened in 806 AS, a public nostalgia campaign persuaded the Navy to have the Yukon refitted, and its serviceable life extended until 825 AS. Left without a battlegroup to spearhead, the Ottawa was used to placate concerns from Ageira executives about supposed Lane Hacker incursions from the Tahoe Ice Cloud. During this time, the Ottawa saw little action on its lonely surveys of California space, but when the Ontario system was opened in 809 AS, the Ottawa was made the flagship of its own battlegroup.

The Ottawa’s service life was increasingly varied. Seeing little action in the Liberty-Rheinland War, the Ottawa combatted domestic insurgencies with a taciturn delicacy rarely seen outside outside of the LSF within the Libertonian uniformed services. Surreptitious field retrofits to the Ottawa’s sensor grids, along with the addition of highly classified spyglass rectenna cut directly off an older, failed Liberty Navy Research and Development program, made the Ottawa and her airwing uniquely suited to hunting Cardamine smugglers and trade lane inhibitors between California all the way up to Alberta. The Ottawa forged a formidable record for herself over her twenty years of service, rarely deployed to the front due to her value as a homeland security asset, and the ‘goodwill’ of Los Angeles’ senate, who politically benefited from the efficacy of her battlegroup.

When the Gallic war finally came to California, the Ottawa was valuable in halting the invasion, her advanced sensor suits allowing for fighter co-ordination through the mirrored ice of the Tahoe nebula. The Ottawa, along with her accompanying vessels, battled the superior tonnage Carcassonne to a tactical standstill, preventing a ground war from breaking out in Liberty and potentially reducing the theoretical losses of the Second Gallic War.

In the final months of the conflict, the Ottawa was rushed into Bretonian space for the final, desperate effort to lift the New London bombardment. With insufficient intelligence data as to the formation of the Gallic defences, it was hoped that the Ottawa’s extensive signal intelligence capabilities would provide the united task force of battered, demoralised, and structurally crippled Allied forces with early warning to the extremist nucleus of King Charles’ armada. Between the steel tombs of the greatest military engagement in history, the Ottawa survived, her battlegroup smashed around her.

The Ottawa’s final operation occurred only a matter of days after the New London engagement. Leading a disorganised, war weary column of battered Bretonian and Libertonian survivors of the new London siege in various states of repair to break the bombardment of Leeds in Operation Dunkirk. Any major capital asset not required for maintaining civil order that still had propulsion control followed her lead into the previously locked gate, the codes having been provided by Gallic defectors who were unable to stomach the immolation of Leeds.

Moving ahead of the allied fleet, sensor suites path-finding for rest of the invasion force, the Ottawa hoped to jam the improvised Gallic early warning systems beyond the gate. Probes deployed into Leeds had sent back telemetry on what appeared to be storage containers and little else surrounding the gate, presumably in preparation for abandonment of the New London gate site. The false negative provided by the probes heuristic algorithms proved fatal, as the ‘storage containers’ were in fact a new Gallic super-weapon – the ‘Montagne’-class beam platform.

The Ottawa’s luck had failed her, as the scarred battleship had expected to encounter only conventional weaponry within the Gallic defence grid. Instead, the Montagne platforms locked on to the advancing Ottawa and stripped her of resistance within a seconds, hot plasma searing away shield emitters, turret blisters and communication rectennas into molten, blinding slag. Before her destruction, the Ottawa was able to transit one last message to the Norfolk and her battlegroup which were directly behind her, and due to the Ottawa’s sacrifice, loss of life in Operation Dunkirk was somewhat lessened.

Blind, crippled and lame, the battleship’s wreck drifts in a wide heliocentric orbit around the Leeds star. No escape pods could have viably been deployed from the deformed hull, and any crew members who may have survived the initial blast have long since suffocated; trapped within the wreck. All members of the Ottawa’s bridge crew were posthumously decorated by President Powell, and were listed in the postwar memorial celebrations by order of the Bretonian Queen.

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Volans - C-2/3

The wreckage of the Auxesia recon fighter Volans.

Contains:

1x KINTANO

San Vicente - C/D-7/6

The remains of the San Vicente, an Outcast Cardamine smuggler, which was intercepted and destroyed by an Armed Forces patrol several weeks ago.

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Lorenzo - C-1/2

The remains of the lost Outcast ship Lorenzo, caught by the military and pursued into this radioactive area. Its Cardamine cargo has not been recovered.

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Bretonia Heavy Fighter - D-1

Hull of a disabled Bretonia Armed Forces heavy fighter, one of the many remnants of the war between Bretonia and Kusari. Fate of its pilot is unknown.

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Bretonia Heavy Fighter - E/F-3

Hull of a disabled Bretonia Armed Forces heavy fighter, one of the many remnants of the war between Bretonia and Kusari. Fate of its pilot is unknown.

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Bretonia Heavy Fighter - G/H-3

Hull of a disabled Bretonia Armed Forces heavy fighter, one of the many remnants of the war between Bretonia and Kusari. Fate of its pilot is unknown.

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Bretonia Heavy Fighter - F/G-5/6

Hull of a disabled Bretonia Armed Forces heavy fighter, one of the many remnants of the war between Bretonia and Kusari. Fate of its pilot is unknown.

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Bretonia Light Fighter - D-4

This disabled ship once belonged to the Bretonia Police Authority. Tasked to aid the Armed Forces in its efforts to counter the Kusari assault, it was taken down by hostile fire and was left behind by the retreating fleets of Bretonia.

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Kusari Heavy Fighter - D/E-2

This heavy fighter wreck belongs to one of the many Kusari ships that were severely damaged during the fights with the Bretonia Armed Forces. Its hull remained at the site of its last battle.

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Kusari Heavy Fighter - H-3

This heavy fighter wreck belongs to one of the many Kusari ships that were severely damaged during the fights with the Bretonia Armed Forces. Its hull remained at the site of its last battle.

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Kusari Heavy Fighter - C-4/3

This heavy fighter wreck belongs to one of the many Kusari ships that were severely damaged during the fights with the Bretonia Armed Forces. Its hull remained at the site of its last battle.

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Kusari Heavy Fighter - C-1

This heavy fighter wreck belongs to one of the many Kusari ships that were severely damaged during the fights with the Bretonia Armed Forces. Its hull remained at the site of its last battle.

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Jump Gates/Holes

Target System	Type	Location
New London	Jump Gate	E-8/7
Newcastle	Jump Gate	G/F-6/5
Tau-31	Jump Gate	F-2
Dublin	Jump Hole	B/C-7
Edinburgh	Jump Hole	C-3
Newcastle	Jump Hole	G/F-7
Magellan	Jump Hole	F-7/6
New London	Jump Hole	C-7

NOTE: Page generated on the 10/07/2023 at 13:34:08 UTC

Leeds
File:Br04.png
System
Governing House	Independent
Region	Tau Border Worlds
Connected Systems	New London Newcastle Tau-31 Dublin Edinburgh Magellan