Ferihegy

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(References to Ferihegy)

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

X: -389.83 Y: 162.67

Owner History

• 2596 - Lyran Commonwealth
• 2750 - Lyran Commonwealth
• 2765 - Lyran Commonwealth
• 3025 - Lyran Commonwealth
• 3030 - Lyran Commonwealth
• 3040 - Federated Commonwealth
• 3052 - Federated Commonwealth
• 3057 - Lyran Alliance
• 3062 - Lyran Alliance
• 3130 - Lyran Commonwealth

Planetary History

Ferihegy is a world with a toxic nitrogen-cyanide atmsophere that causes actively corrosive weather patterns. The human population of the planet lives in self-contained egologies protected from the atmosphere.

The Jihad

On the 4th of March 3075 agitators from the seperatist Democracy Now movement bombed the Capital Arcology Complex on Ferihegy. The bombing killed more than 5,000 residents and resulted in a massive public backlash against the Democracy Now movement and its leader, Lindon Ashley.

The capital arcology, Ferihegy Primus, had a population of some 63,000 people before the bombing, sheltered within the self-contained ecology protected by a six-sided pyramid constructed from ferroglass plates mounted over a steel-alloy frame. Key to the protection of the arcology were the flex points, designed to allow the frame and attached plates to adjust to expansion and contraction caused by heating while keeping the toxic atmosphere out at all times.

The Democracy Now terrorists detonated fourteen charges in a sequential series that shattered flex points along the south face of the arcology. The explosives had apparently been placed on the outside of the structure, based on the trajectory of the resulting blast fragments, and destroyed entire sections of the ferroglass as well as fracturing the southern face of the arcology in several places. The explosions did the most damage to the zones of the city responsible for airponics and yeast production, and the initial explosion killed three hundred people, mainly agricultural workers, those involved in food production and maintenance personnel.

The explosions caused an emergency network of bulwarks and locks to seal off the heart of the city, but between four and a half and five thousand more perished from cyanide poisoning from the toxic atmosphere before the emergency measures succeeded in sealing off the remainder of the city. More damaging still to the viability of the ecology was the loss of the vital zones responsible for feeding the population; two other ecologies on Ferihegy, Ferihegy Tet and Ferihegy Gamma, both pledged aid to Ferihegy Primus, while Ferihegy Geh, a new arcology still under construction, offered to provide free space and employment to any of the surviving citizens of Ferihegy Primus who wanted to relocate. Initial estimates indicated that the previously self-sufficient arcology would take four or five years to once again become self-sustaining.

Lindon Ashley, released pre-recorded messages on a number of worlds claiming that the attack would have been impossible in a state where the citizens were willing participants and supporters of the government, as such citizens would have fought to prevent the bombing; Ashley argued that the bombing had in fact only been possible because the citizens who witnessed the preparations for the bombing were so disenfranchised from the state that fatalism prevented them from interfering. However, casting doubt on this statement - a reiteration of many of the key points from previous speeches given by Ashley - was that the recording made no specific mention of Ferihegy or of explosions, suggesting that the message had been prepared in advance for use in the event of any major incident for which Democracy Now could claim credit.

Nearby Planets

Planets within 2 jumps (60 light-years). Closest planets first:
Planet	Distance (LY)	Jumps	2750	3025	3030	3040	3052	3057	3062
Kostinbrod	15.82	1	LC	LC	LC	FC	FC	LA	LA
Akfata	17.05	1	LC	LC	LC	FC	FC	LA	LA
Kaumberg	17.36	1	LC	LC	LC	FC	FC	LA	LA
Virtue	26.05	1	LC	LC	LC	FC	FC	LA	LA
Alekseyevka	26.21	1	LC	LC	LC	FC	FC	LA	LA
Vermezzo	28.70	1	LC	LC	LC	FC	FC	LA	LA
Firenze	29.79	1	LC	LC	LC	FC	FC	LA	LA
Pocologan	32.68	2	LC	LC	LC	FC	FC	LA	LA
Sapienza	33.06	2	LC	LC	LC	FC	FC	LA	LA
Enzesfled	34.25	2	LC	LC	LC	FC	FC	LA	LA
Vihtijarvi	39.04	2	LC	LC	LC	FC	FC	LA	LA
Calafell	39.49	2	LC	LC	LC	FC	FC	LA	LA
Etiler	39.68	2	LC	LC	LC	FC	FC	LA	LA
Kladnitsa	41.05	2	LC	LC	LC	FC	FC	LA	LA
Amminadav	43.90	2	LC	LC	LC	FC	FC	LA	LA
Novara	46.45	2	LC	LC	LC	FC	FC	LA	LA
Coldbrook	47.83	2	LC	LC	LC	FC	FC	LA	LA
Batajnica	48.07	2	LC	LC	LC	FC	FC	LA	LA
Triesting	48.85	2	LC	LC	LC	FC	FC	LA	LA
Mercedes	49.88	2	LC	LC	LC	FC	FC	LA	LA
Kelang	51.66	2	LC	LC	LC	FC	FC	LA	LA
Wiltshire	52.90	2	LC	LC	LC	FC	FC	LA	LA
Champadanga	55.92	2	LC	LC	LC	FC	FC	LA	LA
Stanley	56.47	2	LC	LC	LC	FC	FC	LA	LA
Timbuktu	57.54	2	RWR	LC	LC	FC	FC	LA	LA
Nuneaton	58.49	2	LC	LC	LC	FC	FC	LA	LA
Ormstown	58.95	2	LC	LC	LC	FC	FC	LA	LA
Kvistgard	58.96	2	LC	LC	LC	FC	FC	LA	LA
Ciampino	59.45	2	LC	LC	LC	FC	FC	LA	LA

Notes

Ferihegy is named after a district of Budapest, known for being the location of Hungary's major international airport.

Bibliography

• Era Report: 2750
• Handbook: Major Periphery States
• Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1
• Historical: Reunification War
• Historical: War of 3039
• Jihad: Final Reckoning
• Jihad Hot Spots: 3076
• Jihad Hot Spots: Terra
• Map of the Inner Sphere 3130