| Eplessier Depot | |
| Owner | |
| The Maquis | |
| Location | |
| B-4/5, Picardy |
CLASS: Rotherham
GRAVITY: Partial
DOCKING: Yes
AMENITIES: Limited
CREW: 320
The Eplessier Depot is a relatively small installation built by the Maquis within the Avre Asteroid Field. The station allows the Maquis to attack traffic heading for Planet Amiens, and also allows them to harass ships near both the system's Jump Gates.
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Ships sold
| Ship | Class | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Gecko | Light Fighter | 16,902$ |
| Agama | Heavy Fighter | 27,158$ |
| Stellion | Very Heavy Fighter | 27,679$ |
| Basilisk | Bomber | 84,362$ |
| Tarvos | Freighter | 21,876$ |
News
| [750 AGS] Quillan boils under EFL abuse |
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BÉZIERS -- 750 -- The rage of Quillan’s workers boils under the tyranny of EFL oppression. The dissolution of local workers’ unions has disposed of any pretense that affairs have improved since the fall of the monarchy. EFL continues the tradition of petty aristocrats throughout our history, with their security troops working alongside Corse thugs and Union Marines to brutalize those who resist the erasure of their rights. This villainy has sent the enraged masses flocking to our banner, inspired by the resistance cells on Marne. These sympathizers will be marshaled into a new Quillan vanguard, and nourished with the bread of revolution. |
| [750 AGS] Correcting the record |
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EPLESSIER -- 750 -- The Grand Marechal and Les Petit Chapeau pat their own backs on New Paris -- the Maquis have noted Gallia’s anniversary very differently. Targeting Amiens, Marne and Quillan, hardcopies of the True History of Gallia have been distributed en-masse. This rips away the lies and fabrications of King Louis I’s “Complete History of Gallia”, poison taught in schools since 118 AGS. This text peddled revisionist lies to vindicate the rule of kings, and in later centuries manufactured the narrative of the “Sirian Betrayal”. This myth is still being regurgitated to bolster the legitimacy of the military dictatorship, and stoke fear against the outside sector. |
| [750 AGS] Ile-de-France campaign avenges Petit |
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BRUNOY -- 750 -- As our righteous struggle on Marne grows, the Union’s thugs struck down Melodie Petit, an inspirational community leader. Border controls had previously been imposed across Ile-de-France, implicitly threatening to cut the colonies off from imported necessities -- a repressive tool of the fallen monarchy. In the largest operation since the end of the Second Gallic Civil War, Maquis fighters sortied from Ile-de-France’s Saint Cloud, Chevreuse, and Oise fields to simultaneously strike and annihilate the oppressor’s destroyer checkpoints. Despite losses, all objectives were achieved in Petit’s name. |
| [750 AGS] Labor leader assassinated on Marne |
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TINQUEUX -- 750 -- An outspoken leader of the Marne Industrial Union, Melodie Petit, has been assassinated in a brazen daylight shooting. Petit had been instrumental in organizing recent demonstrations against the Treaty of Oerlikon. Conspiracy theories about Petit’s death circulated rapidly on local data nets, with many blaming Unione Corse contract killers. Violent protests have radiated from Tinqueux Province, with rioters occupying the planetary spaceport and disrupting exports. Gallic Union security officials have labeled protesters as “Maquis seditionists” and threatened to authorize lethal force by Marines unless order is immediately restored. |
| [748 AGS] Lorraine Evacuation Nearing Completion |
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ORLEANS -- 748 AGS -- According to the information released by the Ministry of the Interior, the evacuation of the Lorraine system is proceeding ahead of schedule. The final convoy of refugees from Metz has arrived in the Orleanais system, pending resettlement onto Orleans in the coming days. As of now, only EFL staff and a token Navy garrison remain in Lorraine to oversee the deconstruction of the remaining infrastructure. According to official projections, the docking ring and the remaining Trade Lanes will be dismantled and shipped back to the core worlds by the end of next month, with Jump Gate shutdown following soon after. Once a beacon of our national ingenuity, Metz was the site of the experimental Metz Mirror Array, more commonly known as the MMA project. The project was intended to assist the terraforming operations through a sophisticated array of orbital mirrors. The array would redirect additional sunlight onto the equatorial band of Metz, further raising local temperatures on the otherwise icy world. Decried by its detractors as a "fool king's endeavour", the ambitious project never had the opportunity to prove its capabilities, as the nearly complete array fell victim to Kusari's invasion of Lorraine. With the array gone and supplies severed, the terraforming project and the biosphere it maintained collapsed during the occupation, leading to widespread famine across Metz. Unfortunately, in the wake of King Charles' gambit in Bretonia and the near complete destruction of Lorraine and Languedoc by Kusari forces, the Union government has declared the system a total loss and ordered a full evacuation of the planet. |
| [831 AS] Jump Hole Upheaval Causes Chaos |
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HEISENBERG -- 831 AS -- Jump holes across Sirius have become increasingly volatile and chaotic over the last year, with Professor Sophia Nagel from the Heisenberg Research Station linking the unusual phenomena to the Pulse. The Pulse was an unprecedented blast of hyperspace energy that was detected immediately prior to last year's Jump Gate Blackout. Professor Nagel and her team are certain the Pulse originated from outside Sirius, but are otherwise no closer to identifying its source or mitigating a future Blackout event. "Following the Blackout, we began to see immediate signs of jump hole destabilization in multiple different regions, with many ultimately falling out of phase alignment altogether", she commented. The dramatic upending of Sirius' jump hole network has already prompted many groups to abandon stations and withdraw from systems that appear to risk being cut off. While months-long trips between the stars are possible thanks to the Liberty Engine and many centuries of innovation, few ships are designed or provisioned to make such arduous journeys. Those who were displaced by Sirius' redrawn map hope that system connections will return, while adventurers and explorers rush to discover new routes. |
| [744 AGS] The Rise of the Gallic Union |
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NEW PARIS -- 744 AGS -- After much deliberation, the representatives of the Duchy, Republic, Minarchy, and the Enclave emerged on Christmas morning to declare the historic reunion of the disparate Gallic states into the Gallic Union, a military republic. The Gallic Union will be headed by the Maréchal de Gaule, and that Marechal's Seigneurs (Lords) and their appointed governors and those governors' Civilian Council, while the citizenry will elect a Chancellor to advise the Marechal. The inaugural Civilian Council, filled with notable citizens from across Gallia, elected Louis de Varax, decorated Grand Marshal for the Second Gallic Civil War and the Kusari Invasion to the rank of Maréchal de Gaule, the executive of Gallia. The Grand Marshal has appointed navy officers to Seigneurship over each system of Gallia. Together with the Marechal, they now have the noble task of leading Gallia into a prosperous future. The inaugural Civilian Council convened on the 22nd of December to elect former President of Ile-de-France Bastien de Chamborant to the office of Chancellor with an overwhelming mandate of 70 percent of the vote. After his inauguration on the 26th, Chancellor Chamborant issued the following statement from the balcony of the Grand Ministere: "My mission is to work alongside the Maréchal and the Seigneurs for the greater good of our nation. My consultative role will allow our citizens to fully participate in the reconstruction of our House turned towards our core Gallic values." "Our Great House is now entering a new era, on the dawn of the year 744 AGS, and we can now trust that our leaders will impose Gallia as a major house of Sirius!" As the year comes to a close, the newly reunified house looks towards the dawn of a new Gallic era. |
| [743 AGS] Alarm raised in Zurich |
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OERLIKON OBSERVATORY -- 743 AGS -- The Gallic Confederation has reacted with alarm at the unfolding events in Rheinland. The First Rheinland Republic has fallen to a violent coup, resulting in the creation of a new Empire. The 'Zurich Corridor' linking Gallia and Rheinland had been intended to open a new avenue for trade and investment across southern Gallia, transforming the Zurich system into a highly profitable trade artery. Rheinland's collapse into civil war has come at an extremely inopportune time, mere days after the successful completion of the Zurich gate and lane projects. The Confederal Government has so far remained divided on the "Rheinland Question", with the exception of authorising the deployment of the La Fierte battlegroup to the border. This decision appears to have been prudent, with reports circulating on Oerlikon that a large Rheinland engine plume was detected on a heading towards the Valais Cloud. So far Confederal Defence Force representatives have remained tight lipped about the possibility of a Rheinland battlegroup seeking refuge in the system. Despite the political gridlock between Republican, Duchy and Minarchy representatives, the Defence Force has received authorisation to deploy into the Cologne system in order to secure Gallic assets. Intelligence reports have confirmed that the group known as the Red Hessians has attempted to assert control over the system, and infiltrate Zurich. A public warning has been posted advising that 'Hessians' approaching the Zurich Jump Gate will be fired upon. |
| [733 AGS] Maquis: Allies in War, Partners in Crime |
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MAZAGRAN -- 733 AGS -- After the well-known split between the Maquis and the Council, the special forces of Gallia have attempted to spur hatred between us and the Council through subterfuge. While we are fully independent from the Council, and while our methods were disapproved of by the Council (just as we disapprove of their ways), we are still allies. To the immense grief and disappointment of our enemies, the Maquis and Council can still stand united against our common foe. The course of the Second Gallic Civil War has proved many times that we can fulfill our obligations and act with honour and courage. The presence of Maquis on Planet Marne is stronger than ever, and several space ports on the planet are fully under our control, open for ships of our other allies, the Brigands and the Corse. Gallic Brigands and Unione Corse do not participate in our fight for the overthrow of the monarchy in Gallia, however, they share our desire for freedom from the control of corrupt officials and Gallic corporations. The liberation of Languedoc, a massive operation of the Council in which we participated, was our most recent - and most deadly - strike against the monarchy. While several hundred of our fighters were destroyed by the Gallic Navy during this operation, the goal is now achieved: isolation of Gallia from Sirius is a thing of the past. The Maquis also played an important role in securing a secret passage in the Lorraine mine fields. Unione Corse delivered us the prototypes of the devices that the Gallic Navy was going to use to neutralise their mines when the time for the Sirius-wide invasion came. Council engineers recreated those devices in sufficient numbers to disable a large portion of the Lorraine mine field, revealing a nearby system that is known as Omicron Tau by Sirius naming conventions. Despite our recent victories, the Second Gallic Civil War is far from over. Gallic fleets are gathering strength, and soon they will inevitably gain the upper hand in Languedoc. Our current objective is to secure our installations in the asteroid fields of the Gallic systems. We will also aid in defending the Champagne system from any Royal Navy attacks. Planet Marne is a new home to many of us. Fresh air instead of recycled space station atmosphere, fresh food instead of synthetic substitutes - this is what we missed for so long, and what this war's successes have made accessible for us. |