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Navigation Home Fiction Payday Encyclopedia Spacecraft Technology Classification Designs AMC Registry of Vessels Sagittarius Colonial Atlas Ahriman (HM+31 0938 B) Amethyst (HB+32 3331 B) Angelique (HM-50 2602 B) Apollonia/Phyrigia (HD+35 2475 A) Aquilla (SAG+56 0107) Arkhangelsk (HM+41 2746) Atlantis (HM+52 0225) Aurora (HM+47 2620 A) Avignon (HM+31 3323) Baker's End (SAG-36 0528) Bellarmine (HM+36 1662 A) Bellissimo (HM+40 2827) Beowulf (HM+39 5516 A) Bounty (HB+38 0524 A) Buran (HD+32 1678) Cauldron (SAG+47 1522) Charybdis (HB+56 0404 B) Concordia (HM+00 2422 A) Cora's World (HM-40 2634) Daedelus (SAG+45 4907 A) Demeter (HM+31 3563) Destiny (HD+47 0309) Dustbowl/New Deseret (SAG-42 4503 B) Frontiera (HD+40 1336) Frostpile (SAG+43 2208) Fury (HM+53 0102 A) Gateway (HM+00 0000) Goldrush (SAG+33 2643) Gulag (HD+40 4019) Hecate's Hate (HM+32 3972) Hyperborea (SAG+44 1855 B) Ice Station Mike (HD+42 3267) Ice Station Oscar (HD+42 5807) Inshallah (HM+53 0608) Jena (HB-33 4139 A) Jewel/Sulfur Flats (HM+41 0955 A & B) Jin Xian (HM-45 4415) Jove/Fuzhou (SAG+49 2911 A & B) Libertad (HD-46 2312) Marino (HD-31 4687) Midgard/Muspellheim (HD+54 1018) Mirabilis (HM-45 1718) Neu Bavaria (HM+31 7329) New Anchorage (HD+35 3455 A) New Ares (HM+57 0405 A) New Havana (HM+55 1217) New Tanstaafl (HM+43 3626 A) New Taranto (HB+31 2685 A) New Zion (HD+47 0954) Paydirt (HM+36 2309) Porto Fria (HM-52 2716 A) Pu'uhuonua (HM+35 2017) Research Station Victor (HB+55 1522) Sakura (HM-31 0629) Sandovar (HM+34 0139 A) Santa Clara (SAG+31 0179 B) Scherzo (SAG+55 2007 B) Sheba's World/Neu Bayer (HD-51 1306 A) Tanner's World (HB-32 1052) Tartarus (HM+31 5806) The Alamo (HM+34 0552 B) Tortuga (HD-37 4529) Toulon (SAG+55 0823 A) Valhalla (HD+31 1168) Viracocha (HM+31 1175 A) Waypoint November (HM+31 1969 A) Waypoint Omega (HM-06 1121 A) Waypoint Tango (HD+41 4528 A) Waypoint X-Ray (HD-66 1619) Waypoint Yankee (HD+10 1721) Waystation Alfa (HM+34 1207) Xiamen (HM+48 2891 B) Zhengzhou (HM-27 9791 B) |
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Volunteer Group The International Volunteer Group (IVG) was formed by the member states of the Western Alliance in 2340 as a military coalition originally tasked with dealing with the pirates, terrorist groups, and other space-faring vermin that used the Commerce War as a springboard for their own violent agendas. Military forces composed of volunteer units were 'detached' from their respective service branches and served under a joint IVG command composed of senior officers from the Western Alliance nations, and supervised by a committee of politicians also drawn from the Alliance. However noble its original intent, the IVG was a transparent sidestep of the UN's own peacekeeping forces, and in the eyes of many served no other purpose than to allow Western Alliance military forces to participate in the proxy wars of their principal antagonists, Manchuria and Aztlan, at a much reduced political cost. 'Mission creep' led to the IVG supporting various independence movements among Manchurian colonies as well as propping up Guangzhou colonies under harassment from Manchurian-backed rebels. Several deeply cynical interventions on behalf of the colonies of Guangxing and Mingxing, including a now infamous incident in which Manchurian separatists from other colonies as well as from Earth were escorted to Mingxing under a UN Human Rights mandate – one of the few instances of cooperation between the United Nations and the IVG – were correctly perceived by the ruling clique in Beijing as a direct assault on their sovereignty in interstellar space. Combatants in the IVG existed in a shadowy realm of legality – they served the interests of their respective nations using the same 'Internationalist' pretexts seen in the various Marxist revolutions and insurrections of the 20th and 21st centuries, continued to draw pay and benefits from their parent armed forces, and yet were expected to be taken as somehow 'neutral' in the Great Game of politics. Beijing of course wasn't buying any of this, and yet was happy to play the same game, setting their own proxy forces against the West's proxies. Though they were frequently outmatched in direct combat with the IVG, they managed to slowly bleed the Alliance with casualties and rising operational costs, and all of the attendant political damage these things cause with their respective voting publics. The unauthorized special forces raid on Shenyang in 2352 that freed several hundred IVG troops taken prisoner over the previous twelve years but whose existence was routinely denied by their captors was deeply embarrassing to Beijing, and led to a deescalation of the conflict and an eventual denouement in 2359 that ended the Commerce War between Manchuria and her enemies Russia, India, and Guangzhou in exchange for the disbanding of the IVG and the end of interference in Manchuria's interstellar affairs. |
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| Intrepid (SDCR-5) Block II Bonaventure class explorer. Keel laid down 23 June 2351. Commissioned into service 31 March 2353. Intrepid was commanded by Drake Skyler from 2353 to 2357 and participated in Expedition ONE and TWO. On 17 August 2357, just days after returning to Gateway Station following the conclusion to Expedition TWO, Intrepid was stolen from SDC control and Long Jumped to an unknown destination before the ship could be boarded. It is commonly believed that Captain Skyler was responsible for the theft, as he and a handful of Intrepid crew disappeared on the same day as the starship. Skyler's motive for stealing the ship and his current whereabouts are unknown, and the SDC has a standing reward of 1 million Solarian Dollars for information leading to the capture of Skyler or the return of the Intrepid. |
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