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After the founding of the [[Star League]] and the end of the [[Reunification War]], the facility was expanded.  Initial expansion included added tarmac and runways, paved roads, warehouses, lodging, a small town, and a garrison.  By [[2641]], the facility also included a Dropship maintenance/repair facility.  This facility included moving platforms large enough to ferry a 20,000 ton Dropship off the runways.  Further, an orbital dry dock was constructed in the excavated core of Columbus's small moon.
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After the founding of the [[Star League]] and the end of the [[Reunification War]], the facility was expanded.  Initial expansion included added tarmac and runways, paved roads, warehouses, lodging, a small town, and a garrison.  By [[2641]], the facility also included a DropShip maintenance/repair facility.  This facility included moving platforms large enough to ferry a 20,000 ton DropShip off the runways.  Further, an orbital dry dock was constructed in the excavated core of Columbus's small moon.
  
 
Columbus remained active through the [[Amaris Civil War]], but was evacuated in [[2780]] shortly before the Exodus of General [[Aleksandr Kerensky]] and most of the [[SLDF]] from the Inner Sphere.
 
Columbus remained active through the [[Amaris Civil War]], but was evacuated in [[2780]] shortly before the Exodus of General [[Aleksandr Kerensky]] and most of the [[SLDF]] from the Inner Sphere.
  
The [[Comstar]] [[Explorer Corps]] vessel ECV ''Von Braun'' discovered the abandoned facilities during a survey of the Epsilon Pegasus system in [[3023]].  Having determined the fourth planet was most likely to be habitable for humans, the crew spent two weeks in orbit over the planet, and discovered the facility because of the large runways, visible despite being overgrown for nearly 250 years.  Identification of the name Columbus and its original use by the [[SLDF]] was only possible because the facilities computer core was still active.  The Explorer Corps survey teams removed all valuable [[LosTech]] from the facility and established a rudimentary base and departure point for further exploration.
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The [[Comstar]] [[Explorer Corps]] vessel ECV ''Von Braun'' discovered the abandoned facilities during a survey of the Epsilon Pegasus system in [[3023]].  Having determined the fourth planet was most likely to be habitable for humans, the crew spent two weeks in orbit over the planet, and discovered the facility because of the large runways, visible despite being overgrown for nearly 250 years.  Identification of the name Columbus and its original use by the [[SLDF]] was only possible because the facility's computer core was still active.  The Explorer Corps survey teams removed all valuable [[LosTech]] from the facility and established a rudimentary base and departure point for further exploration.
  
 
The [[Explorer Corps]] began further upgrades of the facility in [[3053]].  The upgrades included the installation of Explorer Corps field offices, revitalization of the repair and maintenance facilities, barracks, hardened hangars for AeroSpace Fighters, cinemas, sports bars, taverns, night clubs, a [[Hyperpulse Generator]], new radio telescopes and other scientific facilities, and a sizable farming village.  Comstar also revitalized the large dry dock orbiting the planet.
 
The [[Explorer Corps]] began further upgrades of the facility in [[3053]].  The upgrades included the installation of Explorer Corps field offices, revitalization of the repair and maintenance facilities, barracks, hardened hangars for AeroSpace Fighters, cinemas, sports bars, taverns, night clubs, a [[Hyperpulse Generator]], new radio telescopes and other scientific facilities, and a sizable farming village.  Comstar also revitalized the large dry dock orbiting the planet.

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Epsilon Pegasus
System Information
X:Y Coordinates410.26:606.09[e]
Spectral classG2V[1]
Recharge time183 hours[1]
Recharge station(s)None[1]
Planet(s)6

Note: X and Y are coordinates (light years on XY plane) relative to Terra at (0, 0)

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The fourth planet of the Epsilon Pegasus system, Columbus was the name of an Age of War research facility and Deep Periphery base of operations used by the Terran Hegemony, the Star League, and Comstar's Explorer Corps. Columbus lay anti-spinward of the JàrnFòlk, and coreward of the Draconis Combine. The text quotes an approximate distance of "270 light years coreward of Nowhere"[2], however the Explorer Corps map of the Deep Periphery depicts Columbus as approximately 150 light years coreward of Nowhere[3].

History

Columbus was founded in 2549 by Terran Hegemony Deep Periphery exploration crews. The settlement started with a research and boarding facility for deep space exploration, and was located in the center of a crater, situated on one of the two northern continents near the equator. At the time of discovery, settling the facility near the equator was imperative because the planet was in the midst of an ice age.

ColumbusMap.jpg

After the founding of the Star League and the end of the Reunification War, the facility was expanded. Initial expansion included added tarmac and runways, paved roads, warehouses, lodging, a small town, and a garrison. By 2641, the facility also included a DropShip maintenance/repair facility. This facility included moving platforms large enough to ferry a 20,000 ton DropShip off the runways. Further, an orbital dry dock was constructed in the excavated core of Columbus's small moon.

Columbus remained active through the Amaris Civil War, but was evacuated in 2780 shortly before the Exodus of General Aleksandr Kerensky and most of the SLDF from the Inner Sphere.

The Comstar Explorer Corps vessel ECV Von Braun discovered the abandoned facilities during a survey of the Epsilon Pegasus system in 3023. Having determined the fourth planet was most likely to be habitable for humans, the crew spent two weeks in orbit over the planet, and discovered the facility because of the large runways, visible despite being overgrown for nearly 250 years. Identification of the name Columbus and its original use by the SLDF was only possible because the facility's computer core was still active. The Explorer Corps survey teams removed all valuable LosTech from the facility and established a rudimentary base and departure point for further exploration.

The Explorer Corps began further upgrades of the facility in 3053. The upgrades included the installation of Explorer Corps field offices, revitalization of the repair and maintenance facilities, barracks, hardened hangars for AeroSpace Fighters, cinemas, sports bars, taverns, night clubs, a Hyperpulse Generator, new radio telescopes and other scientific facilities, and a sizable farming village. Comstar also revitalized the large dry dock orbiting the planet.

Between the 8th and 14th of December 3068 a Word of Blake strike force attacked and destroyed the Columbus facility; also destroyed in the attack was the 151st Light Horse Regiment of the Eridani Light Horse mercenary regiment.[4] The attack on Columbus wouldn't become known to ComStar for nearly two years, until communications with a relay station near Columbus were recovered in late 3070; downloaded was a repeating emergency broadcast from the few survivors of the Blakist WarShip attack on Colmbus, confirming that the few survivors of the bombardment had no means of leaving Columbus and supplies for perhaps six weeks. It is therefore very likely that everyone present on Columbus at the time of the attack was dead within weeks. The report also indicated that the entire Columbus facility had been burned to the ground.[5]

The 151st Light Horse Regiment were only present on Columbus at the time because they had been attempting to gain transport back from their garrison post in the Clan homeworlds after being cut off by a complete communications blackout between the Inner Sphere and Clan space.[5]

Manufacturing Centers

Columbus is home to a shipyard capable of working on capital-scale vessels. However, the specifics, for instance whether this shipyard is solely capable of making repairs, or if the shipyard is manufacturing new vessels, is unstated. Comstar's other listed shipyard, the Newgrange Factory Yards (location unclear), is the likely production facility of the Faslane-class "yard-ships", essentially a mobile capital ship repair facility. The Faslane is derived from the Star League-era Newgrange-class capital ship.

Owner History

Nearby Systems

There are no known inhabited systems within 60 light years.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Interstellar Players 3: Interstellar Expeditions, p. 23, "Columbus"
  2. Explorer Corps, p. 11
  3. Explorer Corps, p. 48
  4. Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 46, "The Jihad In Review"
  5. 5.0 5.1 Blake Ascending, p. 288, "Columbus Falls!"

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