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OPN.GEN.compac:INITIALISE••• ∞ [Information.request] [long-string ident function disabled] [TEXT function/standard read mode enabled] QUERY.LINE: (Nubecula Major)/(Morien Arm)/Nullity - eD137: ∞ The Morien Arm is an elongated spiral arm being steadily twisted out of the cloud and pulled into the gravity well created by a cluster of black holes. It is surrounded by deep space on all sides, starless and empty. Nullity is a small system in the final third of the Arm whose event horizon is still seventeen thousand years distant. Three airless dead planets orbit a red giant which has already swallowed two stars from the original system. The Erodrome Delirious 137 is in a stationary solar orbit between the second and third planets.

OPN.GEN.compac:INITIALISE••• ∞ Localised Terminology: the Morien Arm is also referred to as the Limb or Crooked Limb. Nullity designates the star; the planets are designated Vigilance, Loss and Lychgate. Vigilance is the furthest out, the largest planet by a small margin. Loss is almost as large, and obscures Lychgate from the Erodrome D137. Lychgate itself, a third the size of the previous two satellites will be absorbed by Nullity in approx. three thousand years time.

OPN.GEN.compac:INITIALISE••• ∞ Erodrome D137 is a Vorax Sanctioned Pleasure Terminus registered by Saeculari Family Arayd, and is currently administered by the 9th Controller Arayd: Lyonath-Pels. This region is subject to periodic Clarification sweeps by Atrox Saevitia vessels with full self-determinant Interdict configuration; however, due to its isolated nature, visitors to eD137 should exercise full caution at all times - g.crim aberrants are known to haunt the Limb. It should be noted that Erodrome D137 maintains a Confirmed Client remote-defense safe corridor to 3Y - prior booking and authorisation is essential, and can be arranged through GridComms at all levels to SEC:compac:7/9. ∞ [EnterNewQueryLine?] ∞ END.GEN.compac:TERMINATE•••

It was bound to happen. The pirate vessel "Forget It" had been too lucky for too long. Sweeping in and out of Vorax supply lines was more than foolish. It was certain death. Around 3047.07.21.06.45 the cargo/combat vessel "Forget It" was intercepted between two Vorax cruisers, and got it hard. Diving the maimed ship through an asteroid belt saved it's ass, but also inflicted even more destruction to the battered ship.

But then, out of nowhere, a miracle appeared: A deserted capacity 9 erodrome, with no Vorax forces to be seen anywhere! And when scanners directed at the erodrome showed enslaved, but living peers (all girls!), the g.crim pirates knew they had found a fraction of pure paradise. - Or so they thought...

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