Colleen

System History

Discovery and development

Colleen was a system approximately 70 light years anti-spinward of Grant's Station in the Kerensky Cluster. It was discovered by Clan Blood Spirit in 3067, when the situation in the Clan Homeworlds was rapidly degenerating and ultimately set off in the Wars of Reaving. The Spirits was under increasing pressure from other Clans, in particular from Clan Star Adder, and they needed to start a new colony unberknownst to the other Clans.

It consisted of two worlds, called Honor (which became the primary colony) and Haven. They grew rapidly in the years after their discovery, the Spirit leadership well aware of their importance especially after the destruction of their capital world York. After Clan Steel Viper was annihilated in 3075 the Spirits were in shambles, having suffered greatly from the invasion of Circe and New Kent which much of their touman and industry on Albion destroyed.

When Bryce Schmitt was elected as saKhan, the Clan leadership made the hard decision to withdraw from all their enclaves in Clan Space to Colleen, except from Strana Mechty, their main genetic repository having already being relocated to Haven in 3070. Progress was slow but steady and the Clan began to rebuilt in complete isolation, the system still being secret to other Clans even if they known the Spirits had withdrawn somewhere but where too busy with more pressing concerns.

End of isolation and Disaster

Finally in 3082 a Clan Stone Lion vessel arrived in the system, and Khan Boques immediately prepared his Clan for the inevitable conflict over these worlds.

The first to arrive was Clan Cloud Cobra, which respectful of previous dealings trialed for and won the right to enstablish two enclaves on Honor's southern continent, centered around strip-mining the nearby mountains of ore. They were in process of building an Omnifighter factory when a cataclysm nearly split the planet in two.

A series of terrible earthquakes rippled through the main continent, Baruna. All the volcanoes in the main mountain range, the largest in Clan Space, erupted at once. Massive tidal waves rolled miles inland. This catastrophic event wiped out both Cobra enclaves, and the main Spirit city of Osterling.

Response was swift but ultimately ineffectual. The two planets were nearly opposite in their orbits and the scarcity of Dropships allowed only 15.000 people to be saved.