Gideon's Redoubt

Gideon's Redoubt is walled community along the north bank of the Hiddekel River founded in 2123 by members of the LDS Church as a human colony alone on the western edge of the North East Continent. Partnered with another colony group, it grew to become East Gideon, and was destroyed or assimilated by the Borg Collective in 2409.
==History==
Gideon's Redoubt was founded on May 5, 2123, by 509 members of the LDS Church colony group. They traveled to Vega IX aboard the ECS Moroni from Earth on a 232 month journey. When Captain Joseph M. Smith chose his landing point, there would be no turning back. The Moroni was built in space, and was designed to descend only once at the end of her one way trip. The Moroni was disassembled and used to build the initial shelters and utilities until the settler's own industry could provide for them. The LDS Church was an insular group, difficult to trust others which is why they had chosen to settle on a different continent than the Vega Concern. The only contact with another group they allowed was the trade negotiated with the Clan Badi who had chosen not to settle on the planet but to establish a station in orbit and mine the asteroids. The trade was highly beneficial as the land of Vega IX proved to be highly arable, but usable ores tended to run in veins deep under ground in the region of Gideon's Redoubt, and the space based colonists had no land yet to farm.
In November of 2128, a second colony ship containing Clan Badi arrived, and due to the relationship their predecessors had grown with the LDS Colonists both groups agreed that joining causes and settling together was most advantageous. The ECS Hieronymus was not a ship destined to be grounded. It was carrying drop pods full of the supplies needed, including livestock and fresh seedstock. The Badi colonists settled just across what LDS Colonists named Hiddekel River. The village the Badi built they named Schronienie, the Romani word for shelter.
Together these two colonies would become the city of East Gideon by 2200.
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