Meridian Colony

Meridian Colony is the name of two failed human colonies established on the planet Meridian. 
== Establishment of the first colony ==
The first colony was actually the second colony ship to launch. In early 2025, the colony ship Michael Osgood was launched from Earth on a two-month journey to the Ultima Sagittarii system located 1.5 light-years away. The spacecraft was traveling at ten times faster than light. The mission commander was astronaut Charles Beach and one of its passengers was his daughter, Agatha Beach. There was a colonist complement of 5,000 people at the time of departure. 
== Establishment of the second colony ==
The second colony was actually the first colony ship to launch. In the year 2000, the colony ship Euclid was launched from low-Earth orbit carrying 600 passengers on a 15 year journey to the Ultima Sagittarii system located 1.5 light-years from Earth. The spacecraft was traveling at a tenth of the speed of light. Upon arrival in 2015, their target planet was discovered to be inhabitable. However, it was until weeks later that the effects of the toxicity of the planet's plant life became apparent. A signal was sent back to Earth but it is presumed that no one on Earth received the message. The colony remained for ten years as the mission commander hoarded supplies for herself. In 2025, she and her complicit acolytes murdered mission commander Charles Beach in an attempt to seduce his daughter Agatha Beach and her fellow passengers of the Osgood to hand over control of the ship. She ultimately failed and taken aboard to face trial where she found guilty and given life imprisonment.
== Relocation and abandonment ==
In the fall of 2025, after the trial of the Euclid mission commander, Agatha Beach and her fellow colonists voted to continue their expedition to find an inhabitable Earth-like planet somewhere else in the Ultima Sagittarii system. 
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